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Miwano of the Ujiya depicting Ariwara Narihira as a Sumô Referee (Narihira gyôji sugata), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi harai, nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿はらい ねり物姿 業平行司姿 うぢ屋 三輪の」
Hasegawa Toyokuni (Japanese, active 1810s)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Kanôya Kitarô
Japanese
Edo period
1813 (Bunka 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.6 x 15.6 cm (13 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26572
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 123; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN 1813-23B, photo p. 33; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #104
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks 画家の印章: なし
版元: 叶喜 山佐
改印: 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.