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How Sad Is the Sound of the Pine Cricket on a Night When I Pine with Love (Matsumushi no/ kogaruru yowa ka/ koe no sabi), No. 18 from an untitled series of Inaka Genji illustrations


田舎源氏 「松むしのこがるる夜半か声のさび」 「十八」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 24.4 cm (14 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29094
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger 9
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、寅九
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: 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.