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Book covers for Akegarasu sumi-e no uchikake, Part 2, Vols. 1 and 2


「明がらす墨画のうちかけ 二編上」  「二編下」 表紙
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
For: Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two covers; 18.3 x 23.8 cm (7 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45796.4a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The book: Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 31
DescriptionAuthor: Santei Shunba (?-1852) 三亭春馬
Signed Shunba saku, Kunisada ga; Gedai Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
春馬作、国貞画 外題豊国画
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.