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Someyama of the Matsubaya, kamuro Someji and Someno, from the series Eight Views of Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô bijin hakkei)


「青楼美人八景 松葉屋内 染山 染じ 染の」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.5 x 18 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25159
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #455.2
Signed Kitagawa Utamaro ga
喜多川歌麿画
Marks No censor's seal
改印: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.