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Couple with Pillow and Padded Kimono, from an untitled erotic series


春画シリーズ かいまきふとんと枕に男女
Artist unknown, Japanese
Style of: Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Japanese
Edo period
1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.7 x 37 cm (10 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.315.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionOne of a group of ten woodblock prints from an album, RES.09.315.1 to .10. The series probably consisted originally of twelve sheets and may have had the names of the artist and publisher on the twelfth sheet, now missing. The designs are based on a series signed by Torii Kiyonobu I, RES.09.316.1 to .11. Kiyonobu's series includes the crest of a courtesan in the upper part of each picture, but in this version the crests have been replaced by small objects that are part of the actual scenes represented.

This design, RES.09.315.5, is based on RES.09.316.9.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)