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Armor Butterfly (Yoroichô) and Canary (Kanariya), with Red Hollyhocks (Kôshûki), Yellow Hollyhocks (Ôshûki), and Rose Balsam (Hôsenka), No. 10 from the series Plants and Trees, Flowers and Birds (Sômoku kachô zue)


「鎧蝶 カナリヤ 艸木華鳥図会 紅秋気 黄秋気 鳳仙花 十」
Gyôzan (Japanese, active late 19th century)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1878 (Meiji 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 25 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37152
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 133, #1164
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13760, 11.37152, 11.38852 (creped, no publisher info)
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.