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Children at Play: Grab a Child, Grab a Child (Kodomo asobi ko o toro ko o toro)


「子供あそび 児をとろ(児をとろ)」
Utagawa Kunisada III (Kunimasa IV, Toyokuni V) (Japanese, 1848–1920)
Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1877 (Meiji 10), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.7 x 49.8 cm (14 7/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16401-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 5 (1980), #279
DescriptionDiptych: 11.16401 (left), 11.16402 (right)
Signed Gakô Takenouchi Hidehisa (on right sheet)
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.