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The Treasure Ship of the Seven Girls of Good Fortune (Shichi fuku musume takarabune)


「七副娘宝船」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1807 (Bunka 4), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.6 x 24.9 cm (14 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17845-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych (two left sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.17845 (left), 11.17846 (right)
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu (on each sheet)
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seals: 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.