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The Goddess Benzaiten Appears to Hôjô Tokimasa at Enoshima


江の島の弁財天と北条時政
Aoigaoka Keisei (Japanese, active 1820s–1830s)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban, upright diptych; 43.2 × 18.6 cm (17 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20069, 11.20644
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Surimono (2013), #350 (bottom sheet only); Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #266 (complete diptych); Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #197 (bottom sheet only)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.20069, 11.20644

MFA impressions: 11.20069VR (11.20069, 11.20644); 53.2730 (top sheet only)
Signed Keisei ga
渓栖画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.