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Courtesans on Display at New Year


正月の青楼
Eishôsai Chôki (Japanese, active about 1780–1810)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban diptych; 33.4 x 45.2 cm (13 1/8 x 17 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14999-5000
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.14999 (right), 11.15000 (left)
Signed Shikô hitsu (on each sheet)
子興筆
Marks No censor's seal
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.