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Book cover for Ominaeshi goshiki sekidai, Ch. 3, part 2, vol. 2


女郎花五色石台(おみなえしごしきせきだい)三編 「おみなへし 五色石(ごしきせき)だい 下帖 下」 表紙
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 17.6 × 10.1 cm (6 15/16 × 4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45859.10
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/he13/he13_03089/he13_03089_0003/he13_03089_0003.html ; the book: Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 679
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete diptych (with the cover of the previous volume as the right sheet).
From an album of book covers and other small prints, 11.45859.1-.41
Author of Chs. 1-4 (of 10): Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848) 曲亭馬琴
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô)
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
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.