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Rain on the Morning After in the Yoshiwara, a Triptych (Seirô kinuginu ame, sanmai tsuzuki)


「青楼後朝雨 三枚続」
Eishôsai Chôki (Japanese, active about 1780–1810)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.2 x 74 cm (15 1/16 x 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14833, 11.14838, 11.14839
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jenkins et al, The Floating World Revisited (1993), #II-16; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #9
DescriptionTriptych: 11.14833 (right), 11.14838 (center), 11.14839 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.14833VR (11.14833, 11.14838, 11.14839; complete), 21.4771 (center sheet only)
Signed Chôki ga (on each sheet)
長喜画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
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.