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「風流六玉川」
The Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Furyû Mu Tamagawa)
「風流六玉川」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban pentaptych; 39 x 127.8 cm (15 3/8 x 50 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14449, 11.14465, 11.14469, 11.14472-473
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #266.1-5; Ukiyo-e shûka 13 (1981), p. 176, figs. 143-145 (left half of hexaptych); Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #s 663-666
DescriptionPentaptych (five sheets of incomplete hexaptych; lacks left sheet), from left to right: 11.14473, 11.14472, 11.14449, 11.14469, 11.14465
MFA impressions:
Sheet 1 (Yamashiro): 11.2256, 11.14465
Sheet 2 (Ômi): 11.14468, 11.14469, 11.24904
Sheet 3 (Settsu): 11.1969, 11.14449, 11.24902
Sheet 4 (Musashi): 11.2033, 11.14472, 11.24913, 21.6508
Sheet 5 (Mutsu): 11.2273, 11.14473, 11.24966
Sheet 6 (Kii): 11.1993, 11.24903
Virtual records: 11.14465VR (11.14465, 11.14469, 11.14449, 11.14472, 11.14473; lacks left sheet), 11.24902VR (11.24902, 11.24903, 11.24904, 11.24913, 11.24966; lacks right sheet)
MFA impressions:
Sheet 1 (Yamashiro): 11.2256, 11.14465
Sheet 2 (Ômi): 11.14468, 11.14469, 11.24904
Sheet 3 (Settsu): 11.1969, 11.14449, 11.24902
Sheet 4 (Musashi): 11.2033, 11.14472, 11.24913, 21.6508
Sheet 5 (Mutsu): 11.2273, 11.14473, 11.24966
Sheet 6 (Kii): 11.1993, 11.24903
Virtual records: 11.14465VR (11.14465, 11.14469, 11.14449, 11.14472, 11.14473; lacks left sheet), 11.24902VR (11.24902, 11.24903, 11.24904, 11.24913, 11.24966; lacks right sheet)
Signed
Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
歌麿筆
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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.
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.