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Fashionable Spring Herb-gathering (Fûryû wakana-tsumi)


「風流わかな摘」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Koizumi Minokichi (Hori Mino) (Japanese, 1833–1906)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych, creped; 21.7 x 46.8 cm (8 9/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1963.8a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G283 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1963.8a-c (creped and mounted in album), 11.41814a-c (creped)

From an album of seven miscellaneous creped triptychs plus a printed title page added when the album was constructed, 00.1963.1 to 00.1963.8a-c.
The photograph shows one two-page spread in the album plus one following page with the third, leftmost sheet of the triptych.
Signed Toyokuni rô hitsu (on right and left sheets)
豊国老筆
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 11 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Mino
改印:亥十一改
彫師:彫巳の
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 1, 1900)