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Chronicle of Great Peace and Happiness: The Battle of Rice and Sake, Buy More and More! (Taiheiki mochisake tatakai)


「太平喜餅酒多多買」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Maruya Seijirô (Marusei, Jukakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36 x 76.3 cm (14 3/16 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19651-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Toraya, Atsumeru tanoshimi (Yoshida coll., 2012), #102; Salter, Japanese Popular Prints (2006), p. 133, fig. 137; Inagaki, Edo no asobi-e (1988), #57; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 248, ôban triptych #60
DescriptionTriptych: 11.19651 (right), 11.19652 (center), 11.19653 (left)
Signed Hiroshige gihitsu (on right and left sheets)
広重戯筆
Marks Censor's seal: Kinugasa (on left sheet only)
No blockcutter's mark
Collector's seal: ... bunko (on right sheet)
改印:衣笠
彫師:なし
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.