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Act VIII (Hachidanme), from the series The Chûshingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties: A Set of Twelve Prints (Kômei bijin mitate Chûshingura jûnimai tsuzuki)


「高名美人見たて忠臣蔵 八だんめ」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794–95 (Kansei 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.6 x 25.8 cm (15 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13518
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bell, Chushingura (2001), pl. 38; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #210.8; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #300.8; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 160.2.4; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #211
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.