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Kotsuru of the Kyô Izutsuya as Omiwa, from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿洗 ねり物姿 於美輪(おみわ) 京井筒屋 小鶴」
Harukawa Goshichi (Kamiya Hôshû) (Japanese, 1776–1831?)
Publisher: Kanôya Kitarô
Japanese
Edo period
1810s (late Bunka era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.6 x 15.3 cm (13 1/4 x 6 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26568
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 124; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN Bunka C-20, photo p. 42
Signed Harukawa ga
はる川画
Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa, Kyô Nawate Kanôki han
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.