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Viewing Bush Clover, from the series Current Manners in Eastern Brocade (Fûzoku Azuma no nishiki)


「風俗東之錦」 萩見
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1785 (Tenmei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 39.3 x 51.7 cm (15 1/2 x 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession Number11.13879, 21.1798
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #17; Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list 3-19, pl. 099; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #8.19; Ukiyo-e shûka 11 (1979), pls. 35-6; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #590, pl. LVII
DescriptionDiptych: 11.13879 (right), 21.1798 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.13879 (right), 21.1798 (left); 21.5494 (left), 21.5627 (right)
Signed Kiyonaga ga (on each sheet)
清長画
ProvenancePrior to 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)