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The Tomomi [=Tomoeya] Restaurant at Daidaichi (Daidaichi Tomomi [=Tomoeya]), from the series Colors of Spring at Thirty-six Restaurants (Shunshoku sanjûroku kaiseki)


「春色三十六会席 大代地 巴三」
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Hiranoya Shinzô (Aikindô)
Japanese
Meiji era
1869 (Meiji 2), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 × 24 cm (14 1/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41175
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39755, 11.41175

The name of the restaurant is clearly written as "Tomomi" on this print, but it is given as "Tomoeya" on the title page of the series, 11.41166, and on another print close in date, 11.40521.
Signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga
一蕙斎芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Snake 3 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:巳三改
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: 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.