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Children at Play: Raising the Roof of a Storehouse (Kodomo asobi dozô no muneage)


「子供遊土蔵之上棟」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about late 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.9 x 75.6 cm (14 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30465-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #286; Suzuki 1992, #362
DescriptionTriptych: 11.30465 (left), 11.30466 (center), 11.30467 (right)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.