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Kôbai and Yamato of the Shinagawa-rô, from the series Thirty-six Selected Flowers in Full Bloom: Their Own Calligraphy (Zensei jihitsu sanjûroku kasen)


「全盛自筆三十六花撰」 「品川楼紅梅」 「同大和」
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1869 (Meiji 2), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.9 × 23.6 cm (14 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45445
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga
一蕙斎芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Snake 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:巳九改
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: January 19, 2005)

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.