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White Sake for Otafuku (Otafuku ni shirozake), No Medicine for Foolishness (Baka ni tsukeru yaku wa nai), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)


狂斎百図 「おたふくに白酒」 「ばかにつける薬はない」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Japanese
Edo period
1866 (Keiô 2), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 17.3 × 11.2 cm (6 13/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45800.32
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Osaka City Mus., Edo no giga (2018), #227; Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 103, #0791 (sheet of 4); Tokita, E de tanoshimu Edo no kotowaza (2005), p. 34 (detail)
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Uncut sheet: 11.45393.23
Right side only: 11.22657, 11.36975, 11.45800.32
Left side only: 11.22648, 11.36981, 11.45800.52
Signed Seisei Kyôsai
惺々狂斎
Marks Censor's seal: Tiger 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
Publisher's mark cut off of this impression
改印:寅九改
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.