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Flowers (Hana), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka no uchi)


「雪月花の内 花」
Utagawa Kuniteru I (Sadashige) (Japanese, active about 1820–60)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38 x 76.6 cm (14 15/16 x 30 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21455-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G429-03 (no photo)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.21455 (right), 11.21456 (left), 11.21457 (center)

MFA impressions: 11.21455-7, 11.36841a-c
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniteru ga (on right and left sheets), Kuniteru ga (on center sheet)
一雄斎国輝 画輝画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松
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.