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The Genji Room at Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama Genji no ma), frontispiece (hattan) from the series Lingering Sentiments of a Late Collection of Genji (Genji goshû yojô) [pun on The Fifty-four Chapters of the Tale of Genji (Genji gojûyojô)]


「源氏後集余情 発端 石山寺源氏の間」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.2 cm (14 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41038
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G339-00, pl. 104; Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #40-01
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15521, 11.41038
Signed Ichiyôsai Utagawa Toyokuni hitsu
一陽斎歌川豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 2
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Yokokawa Takejirô
改印:午二
彫師:彫工横川竹次郎
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.