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Birds and Flowers, Wind and Moon, in the Modern Style (Imayô kachô fûgetsu)


「今様花鳥風月」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 x 75.6 cm (14 5/8 x 29 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21305-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #75 (complete triptych); Chiba City Museum of Art, Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #94 (complete triptych)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.21305 (left), 11.21306 (center), 11.21307 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.17924 (right sheet only), 11.21305-7 (complete triptych)
Signed Keisai Eisen ga (on each sheet)
渓斎英泉画
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.