Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Two Young Men and a Woman Dressed as Komusô


三人虚無僧
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1782 (Tenmei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.6 x 26.1 cm (15 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13941
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #140 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #5, pl. 25; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #432, pl. LVII
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13941, 21.5612
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
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.