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A Votive Picture to be Donated to the Kannon of Asakusa (Asakusa Kannon hô kakegaku no zu), by Takigawa of the Ôgiya, kamuro Menami and Onami, with Tomikawa, Kumegawa, Tamagawa, Tsugawa, Utagawa, and Kiyokawa


「浅草観音奉掛額之図 扇屋内滝川 富川、粂川、玉川、津川、歌川、清川 め浪、お浪」
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro) (Japanese, died in 1830)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1800 (Kansei 12), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.5 x 75 cm (15 3/16 x 29 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15030, 11.15031, 11.15034
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 10, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, I (1988), pl. 168
DescriptionTriptych: 11.15030 (left), 11.15031 (center), 11.15034 (right)
Signed Kikumaro hitsu (on each sheet)
菊麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 1
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.