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Hotei with Bag of Jewels and Chinese Child


布袋と唐子
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 18.2 x 12 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25206
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Hokusai ga
北斎画
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.