Pounding Mochi Dough, from an untitled series of Ebisu and Daikoku with modern women at New Year
恵比寿大黒の初餅
Japanese
Edo period
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806), Publisher Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #786.6
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 24.9 cm (15 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Accession Number
11.14562
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Signed
Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Markings
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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