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Celebration in Honor of Ebisu


恵比寿講
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1787–88 (Tenmei 7–8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 32.5 x 21.5 cm (12 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14398
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #51.1-3; Ukiyo-e shûka 15 (1980), p. 233, figs. 3-5
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych. Left sheet: 11.14436.
Signed Utamaro ga
歌麿画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: 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.