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Momiji no ga, from the series Genji in Fashionable Modern Guise (Fûryû yatsushi Genji)


「風流やつし源氏」 紅葉賀
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1791–92 (Kansei 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 x 76.3 cm (14 5/8 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14032, 11.14107, 11.14108
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #44; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musee Guimet II (1990), pl. 73; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #82.2; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 191, list no. 56
DescriptionTriptych: 11.14032 (right), 11.14107 (left), 11.14108 (center)

MFA impressions: 11.14031 (right sheet only), 11.14032VR (11.14032, 11.14107, 11.14108), 21.4853-5
Signed Eishi ga (on each sheet)
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.