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「春磐戸 其一」
No. 1 (Sono ichi): Musician Playing a Drum, from the series The Cave Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)
「春磐戸 其一」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21 x 18.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19833
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
McKee, Japanese Poetry Prints (Schoff Coll. cat., 2006), #53; Rijksmuseum, The Ear Catches the Eye (2001), #63 (all 5); Mirviss, The Frank Lloyd Wright Coll. of Surimono (1995), cat. no. 121
DescriptionPentaptych, "11.19809, 11.19833-6": 11.19809 (CR), 11.19833 (R), 11.19834 (C), 11.19835 (CL), 11.19836 (L)
Poems for this sheet (R) translated in McKee 2006, p. 153.
Poems for this sheet (R) translated in McKee 2006, p. 153.
Signed
Hokkei
北渓
北渓
InscriptionsPoems by Washutei Nomiyasu and Kasentei Momohito
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.
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.