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Ch. 32, Umegae, from the series Traces of Genji in Fifty-four Chapters (Omokage Genji gojûyo jô)


「俤けんじ五十四帖 三十二 梅枝」
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 × 25.9 cm (14 3/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15555
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G554-32 (no photo); Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #191-33; Fukuda, Enshoku Genji-e (1991), fig. 95
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15555, 11.37391.32

Complete series, from album: 11.37391.1-.54
Signed Baichôrô Kunisada hitsu (on main image); Ryûsai (on fan inset)
梅蝶楼国貞筆、立斎
Marks Censor's seal: Rat 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
Artists' seals: toshidama (on main image); ga (on fan inset)
改印:子正改
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem: Hana no ka wa/ chirinishi eda ni/ tomarenedo/ utsuramu sode ni/ asaku shimame ya
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.