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Old Picture of a Performance of the Okina Dance (Bugaku okina koga no zu)


「舞楽翁古画之図」
Utagawa Kuniteru I (Sadashige) (Japanese, active about 1820–60)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 x 77 cm (14 5/8 x 30 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14084-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTriptych: 11.14084 (left), 11.14085 (center), 11.14086 (right)
Signed Kuniteru ga
画輝画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
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.