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「皇后宮御製唱歌（くわうごうぐうぎょせいしゃうか）」
Song Composed by the Empress (Kôgôgû gosei shôka)
「皇后宮御製唱歌（くわうごうぐうぎょせいしゃうか）」
Japanese
Meiji era
1887 (Meiji 20), September 8
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 37.4 x 49.7 cm (14 3/4 x 19 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16135, 11.18163
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #52; Meech-Pekarik, The World of the Meiji Print (1986), fig. 68; Tanba, Nishiki-e ni miru Meiji tennô to Meiji jidai (1966), #55
DescriptionDiptych: 11.16135 (left), 11.18163 (right)
The song lyrics are translated and discusssed in Meech-Pekarik 1986, p. 119.
The song lyrics are translated and discusssed in Meech-Pekarik 1986, p. 119.
Signed
Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
豊原国周筆
豊原国周筆
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.