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Couple under a Padded Kimono, from an untitled erotic series with courtesan crests

Couple under a Padded Kimono, from an untitled erotic series with courtesan crests

家紋の春画シリーズ　かいまきふとんの下に男女

Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Publisher: Takeda Chôemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1700s–1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper

Dimensions 19.6 × 28.6 cm (7 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession NumberRES.09.316.4

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionEleven woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, RES.09.316.1-11.

Signed (Yamato eshi Torii Kiyonobu, on the final sheet in the series)
（大和絵師鳥居清信）

Marks (Publisher's mark on final sheet only)

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)