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The Ise Ondo Dance at the Bizen-ya Restaurant in Furuichi (Furuichi Bizen-ya Ise ondo odori no zu)


古市びぜん屋伊勢音頭おどり之図
Utagawa Kunikane (Japanese, active 1820s)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37 x 50.9 cm (14 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16212-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 5, Victoria and Albert Museum II (1989), pl. 70 (complete triptych)
DescriptionDiptych (center and left sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.16212 (right), 11.16213 (left)
The title is on the missing right sheet.
Signed Kunikane ga
国兼画
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.