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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

The Bride Changing Clothes after the Wedding Ceremony (Konrei ironaoshi no zu)


「婚礼色直し之図」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.7 x 50.7 cm (14 7/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15988, 11.15998
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 120-3; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980), #529 (complete triptych)
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): *11.15988 (left), *11.15998 (right)

MFA impressions: *11.15988VR (11.15988, 11.15998; center and right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.34954a-c (complete triptych)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜
彫師:なし
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.