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家紋の春画シリーズ ひざまずく男女
Kneeling Couple, from an untitled erotic series with courtesan crests
家紋の春画シリーズ ひざまずく男女
Japanese
Edo period
about 1700s–1710s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions
19.6 × 28 cm (7 11/16 × 11 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.316.11
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Shibui, Estampes Erotiques Primitives du Japan, vol. I (1926), pl. VIII (left edge of this sheet, covered by a non-explicit sheet not in the MFA)
DescriptionEleven woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, RES.09.316.1-11.
For another version of this design, possibly a pirate edition, see RES.09.315.10.
For another version of this design, possibly a pirate edition, see RES.09.315.10.
Signed
Yamato eshi Torii Kiyonobu
大和絵師鳥居清信
大和絵師鳥居清信
Marks
Artist's seal: Kiyonobu
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)