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Comic One Hundred Turns of the Rosary (Dôke hyakumanben), from the series One Hundred Wildnesses by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakkyô)


「狂斎百狂 どふけ百万遍」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjirô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.7 x 73.2 cm (14 1/16 x 28 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22759-61
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Oikawa, Clark & Forrer, Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyôsai/Kyôsai giga kyôga ten (1996), #117; Clark, Demon of Painting (1993), #75; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #347; Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 9 (1981), #202
DescriptionTriptych: 11.22759 (center), 11.22760 (left), 11.22761 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.22757VR (11.22757, 11.22758, 11.38601), 11.22759-61, 11.37044a-c, 11.40055a-c, 11.40056 (right sheet only)
Signed Kyôsai (on right sheet), Seisei Kyôsai giga (on left sheet)
狂斎 惺々狂斎戯画
Marks Censor's seal: Rat 3 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:子三改
彫師:なし
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.