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Figures from Ôtsu-e Folk Paintings Playing Games (Ôtsu-e no tawamure) (R); Ôtsu-e Figures Imitating Narihira's Journey to the East (Ôtsu-e no azuma kudari) (L); from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)


狂斎百図 「大津絵の戯」 「大津絵の東下り」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863–66 (Bunkyû 3–Keiô 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban) on uncut horizontal chûban sheet; 18.1 x 24 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45393.6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 103, #0790 (sheet of 4)
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Uncut sheet: 11.45393.6
Right side only: 11.45800.40
Left side only: 11.37012, 11.45800.29

Album containing 50 designs (half of the series?): 11.45393.1-25
Signed Ôju Seisei Kyôsai (on each side)
応需惺々狂斎
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.