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Grasshopper and Persimmon


柿にきりぎりす (複製)
After: Hishikawa Sôri (Japanese, active about 1789–1818)
Falsely attributed to: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1890s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25209
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #163; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 263
DescriptionGroup B copy. No recorded original, but group A copy has signature of Sôri.

MFA impressions, both reproductions: 11.25209, 17.1449
Signed False signature: Hokusai ga
北斎画
Marks False artist's seal: Hokusai
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.