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Lady and Attendants Returning from a Temple Visit


参詣帰り
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban pentaptych; 39 x 26 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13552, 11.13838-13841
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura (1919), #139 (complete)
DescriptionPentaptych: 11.13552 (L), 11.13841 (CL), 11.13840 (C), 11.13839 (CR), 11.13838 (R)

MFA impressions: 11.13552VR (11.13552, 11.13838-41), 21.7825-9
Signed Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame (on three left sheets only)
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.