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Kokon gasō


古今画藪
Sō Shiseki (Japanese, 1715 – 1786)
Japanese
Edo period
1769 (Meiwa 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 26.6 x 17.0 cm
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number2009.3880.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné https://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko08/bunko08_b0132/ ; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 415
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 25, 2009)

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.