Advanced Search
Advanced Search

The Fifth Month, from the series Twelve Months in the South (Minami jûni kô)


「美南見十二候」 五月
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1784 (Tenmei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 39 x 52.5 cm (15 3/8 x 20 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13944, 11.30358
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #6-3, pl. 103; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #12.3, pls. 36-7; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #627, pl. LVIII
DescriptionDiptych: 11.13944 (left), 11.30358 (right)

MFA impressions:
left sheet: 11.13944, 21.5607
right sheet: 11.30358, 21.5629
Signed Kiyonaga ga (on each sheet)
清長画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.