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New Year Presentation of a White Horse, from the album Men's Stamping Dance (Otoko tôka)


男踏歌 青馬の節会
Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
1798 (Kansei 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.2 x 37.7 cm (9 15/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13481
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 3, British Museum III (1987), fig. 154; the book: Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #481 (this design described, but no photo)
DescriptionFrom an album of 16 leaves, a kyôka anthology with six illustrations by Tôrin, Utamaro, Shigemasa, Ekishi, Eishi, and Hokusai.
The complete book: 2011.794
Signed Kitao Kôsuisai ga
北尾江翠斎画
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.