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「流行病妙薬奇験 （はやりやまひくすりのちかみち）」
Effective Medicines for Treating the Epidemic (Hayari yamai kusuri no chikamichi)
「流行病妙薬奇験 （はやりやまひくすりのちかみち）」
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 9th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 37.7 x 5106 cm (14 13/16 x 2010 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22037-8
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980), #546; Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 1 (1977), pp. 78-9 (a slightly different version)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.22037 (left), 11.22038 (right)
Refers to the cholera epidemic.
Refers to the cholera epidemic.
Signed
Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
Marks
Censor's seal: Horse 9
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印：午九
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印：午九
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.
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.