Plum Blossoms under Snow at Night (Tsumoru yoru no ume) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Plum Blossoms under Snow at Night (Tsumoru yoru no ume)

Plum Blossoms under Snow at Night (Tsumoru yoru no ume)

「つもる夜の梅」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.3 x 51.2 cm (14 11/16 x 20 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1087-8

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 00.1087 (left), 00.1088 (right)

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村松、吉村
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)