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Three Big Girls


大女三人姉妹
Utagawa Yoshitsuna (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Mikawaya Tetsugorô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Koizumi Kanegorô (Hori Kane) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.5 x 50 cm (14 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22015-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné http://blog.livedoor.jp/misemono/archives/cat_50049088.html; Ono, Misemono fûzoku zushi (1977), p. 108
DescriptionDiptych: 11.22015 (left), 11.22016 (right)
Signed Ittôsai Yoshitsuna ga (on each sheet)
一登斎芳綱画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 4
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Kane
改印:改、辰四
彫師:彫兼
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.