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Woman Kneeling by a Waterfall; Parody of Xu You


滝に美人、見立許由
Utagawa Sadakage I (Japanese, active about 1818–1844)
Japanese
Edo period
1829 (Bunsei 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 19.8 x 18.4 cm (7 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45630
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), #218a; Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, #s 257-8
DescriptionUpper sheet of incomplete vertical diptych.

Poems translated in Keyes 1985, vol. 2, p. 301, and Carpenter et al 2008, p. 341.
Signed Ôju Sadakage ga
応需貞景画
InscriptionsPoem by Rôgetsuan Umekage: Mizutama o/ marobasu taki ni/ araitaru/ mimi uruwashiki/ uguisu no koe

Poem by Shakuyakutei: Harukaze ni/ kôri wa tokete/ sasou mizu/ aredo moyô no/ ume wa nagarezu

Poem by Chôkintei Aoki: Ushi no se ni/ tsuketaru hana no/ kumoma yori/ tsukihi no niou/ uguisu no koe
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.