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Adonis Plants (Fukujusô): Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII, from the series (?) New Year Presentations by Top Actors (Atai senkin haru no gaku)


「値千金春の楽 福寿艸」八代目市川団十郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 15–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.2 cm (14 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39017
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #117
Description見立
Signed Hanmoto no ôju Toyokuni ga
梓元の應需豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: Mera
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良
彫師:なし
Inscriptions「また風は寒し売梅つほみかち 新日々庵琴雅」
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.