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Autumn Lanterns in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô no aki tôrô zu): Masanagi of the Tamaya


「青楼之秋燈楼図 玉屋内 政那木」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1811 (Bunka 8), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.1 cm (14 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17823
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), triptych list p. 317, #18 (no photo)
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete triptych.
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, ...
改印:極
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.