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Gentai sensei gafu (An Album of Pictures by the Master Gentai)


玄對先生畫譜
Watanabe Gentai (Japanese, 1749–1822)
Author of preface and postface: Fuku Genryu (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Sasuke (Kinkadô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1806

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 25.8 x 17.6 cm; ôhon
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number1997.613.1-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 420
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

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.