Narumi: Woman Doing Arimatsu Shibori Tie-dying, from the series Fifty-three Pairings for the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsui)

「東海道五十三対　鳴海」　有松絞り

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Ichiemon (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Fusajirō (Horikō Fusajirō, Hori Fusa) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1845–46 (Kōka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ōban; 35.8 x 24.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.45385.41

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Allen & Wehmeyer, Tōkaidō Texts and Tales (2015), #41; Marks, Kunisada's Tōkaidō (2013), #T78-41; Nat. Mus. of J. Hist., Nishiki-e wa ika ni tsukurareta ka (2009), #s 99,100 (blocks); Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S44.42

DescriptionStation 41, from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.

MFA impressions: 11.22417, 11.30436, 11.45385.41

Signed Ōju Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga
応需香蝶楼豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: Mura
Blockcutter's mark: Horikō Fusajirō
改印：村
彫師：彫工房次郎

Inscriptions鳴海より壱里ほど東に有松村といふあり　此所の名物は細き木綿をいろいろに絞りて紅と藍とに染分諸国ヘ商ふ　これをありまつしぼりといふ　店前に多くかざりてこれをのみあきなふ家所々にあり

ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.