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Bamboo Grove at Kumemura (Kumemura no chikuri), from the series Eight Views of the Ryûkyû Islands (Ryûkyû hakkei)


「琉球八景 粂村竹籬」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.7 x 37 cm (9 3/4 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17514
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Seifman, "Islands ...," Andon 106 (2018), fig. 5a; Hokusai Updated (2019), #351; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ôban #21.3
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.807 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17514, 21.6707
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
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.