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Cherry-blossom Viewing at Goten-yama


御殿山の花見駕籠
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
1805 (Bunka 2), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.6 x 72.2 cm (14 x 28 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23006-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #8; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #549.1-3; Ukiyo-e shûka 6 (AIC 3, 1978), pls. 119-21
DescriptionTriptych: 11.23006 (left), 11.23007 (center), 11.23008 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.14405 (left sheet only), 11.23006-8, 21.7703-5

The MFA impressions have no publisher's mark, but the Chicago impression has an unidentified publisher's mark.
Signed Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, 12
改印:極、十弐
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.