Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Take zukushi (Compendium of Bamboo Designs)
1906 (Meiji 39)
Artist Furutani Kôrin
Publisher Unsôdô
Overall: 18 x 25 x 1 cm (7 1/16 x 9 13/16 x 3/8 in.)
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper with applied silver and gold
Classification: Illustrated books
Culture: Japanese
Period: late Meiji era
Accession number: 2012.77
Description: 1 bound volume, containing 50 woodblock printed images and one page of text
Provenance/Ownership History: 2000, given by Ruth Lepper Gardner (b. 1905 – d. 2010), Southport, ME to an anonymous donor; 2012, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: March 28, 2012)
Anonymous gift