No. 3 (Sono san): Ama no Uzume, from the series The Cave Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)
「春磐戸 其三」
Japanese
Edo period
1820s
Artist Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Catalogue Raisonné
Rijksmuseum, The Ear Catches the Eye (2001), #63 (complete pentaptych); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 183 (three sheets only)
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21.2 x 18.6 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Accession Number
11.19834
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Pentaptych: 11.19809 (CR), 11.19833 (R), 11.19834 (C), 11.19835 (CL), 11.19836 (L)
Signed
Hokkei
北渓
Provenance
By 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.
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection