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「風流てらこ吉書はじめけいこの図」
First Calligraphy Class of the New Year at a Fashionable School (Fûryû terako kissho hajime keiko no zu)
「風流てらこ吉書はじめけいこの図」
Japanese
Edo period
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 39.1 x 77.8 cm (15 3/8 x 30 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13830-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba City Mus., Ukiyo-e ni egakareta kodomotachi (2014), #72; Kumon Kodomo Kenkyûjo, Ukiyo-e no kodomotachi/Children Depicted in Ukiyoe (1995), #41 (left sheet only); Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 8 (1981), #132
DescriptionTriptych: 11.13830 (right), 11.13831 (center), 11.13832 (left)
MFA impressions: 11.13830-2 (complete triptych), *11.23035 (right sheet only, deaccessioned in 2012)
The date and title are written in the banners overhead, and the publisher's name appears on various objects in the picture: a black box in the right sheet, a table leg in the center sheet, a notebook in the left sheet.
MFA impressions: 11.13830-2 (complete triptych), *11.23035 (right sheet only, deaccessioned in 2012)
The date and title are written in the banners overhead, and the publisher's name appears on various objects in the picture: a black box in the right sheet, a table leg in the center sheet, a notebook in the left sheet.
Signed
Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
豊国画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame (on right and center sheets)
改印：極
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.
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.