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Dancer and Bell of Dôjô-ji Temple


娘道成寺 (絵暦)
Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785)
Japanese
Edo period
1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23.3 x 18.4 cm (9 3/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30134
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #43; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #719
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.20131, 11.30134

The numbers of the long months are hidden in the kimono and the short months in the bell.
Signed Ishikawa Shûha ga
石川秀芭画
Marks Blockcutter: Horikô Nakamura Joryû
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.