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Returning Sails of Akashi (Akashi kihan): Koimurasaki of the Tamaya, kamuro Chidori and Momiji, from the series Eight Views of Genji (Genji hakkei)


「源氏八景 明石帰帆 玉屋内 濃紫 ちとり もみじ」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 23.5 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41510
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, The Ôjaku Collection (2022), #119; Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #21.1 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17713, 11.41510
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.