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Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Five Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô Gonin onna)


「たまや内 花紫 青楼五人女」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17784
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #49 (this design not listed)
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks No censor's seal
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.