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Ladies Imitating a Courtly Insect Hunt


見立虫選
After: Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1792–93 (Kansei 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 25 cm (15 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14066
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #154; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 10, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, I (1988), pl. 183 (C & L only); Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #87; Ukiyo-e shûka 6 (AIC 3, 1978), figs. 45-7
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych; 11.14067 is the right sheet.

MFA impressions: 11.14066 (left sheet), 11.14067 (right sheet), 21.4862-4 (complete triptych)
Signed Eishi ga
栄之画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.