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Ohan and Chôemon, with a Dream of Living Money


お半と擬人化したお金の夢を見る長右衛門
Shôkôsai (Japanese, active 1795–1809)
Japanese
Edo period
1803–18 (Bunka era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.6 x 24 cm (14 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26557
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 128
DescriptionPlay: Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
桂川連理柵(かつらがわれんりのしがらみ)
Signed Shôkôsai ga
松好斎画
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.