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Fukuroi in Tôtômi Province: Drunken Games of Yaji and Kita (Yaji Kita shûyoku no tawamure), from the series Calligraphy and Pictures for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Shoga gojûsan eki)


「書画五拾三駅 遠江 袋井 弥次喜太 酒慾の戯」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Other artist: Utagawa Shigekiyo (Japanese, active about 1860–1890)
Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1872 (Meiji 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 23.7 cm (14 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41455
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Osaka City Mus., Edo no giga (2018), #239; Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 114, #0911; Oikawa, Clark & Forrer, Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyôsai/Kyôsai giga kyôga ten (1996), #174
DescriptionNo. 28 in the series.
Signed Seisei Kyôsai; Yoshitora ga; Shigekiyo
惺々暁斎、芳虎画、重清
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
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: January 19, 2005)

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.