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Women in an Iris Garden


あやめ狩り
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Mikawaya Rihei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1801–08 (Kyôwa 1–Bunka 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.7 x 74.5 cm (15 1/4 x 29 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17864-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), triptych list #117, cat. #399
DescriptionTriptych: 11.17864 (left), 11.17865 (center), 11.17866 (right)
Signed Eizan hitsu (on each sheet)
英山筆
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.