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Winter Pleasures (Fuyu no raku), from the series Songs of the Four Seasons (Shiki no nagame)


「四季の詠 冬の樂」
Utagawa Kuniteru I (Sadashige) (Japanese, active about 1820–60)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 x 77.3 cm (14 5/8 x 30 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16228-30
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G430-02 (no photo)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.16228 (right), 11.16229 (center), 11.16230 (left)
Signed Kuniteru ga, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet)
国輝画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Ox 2
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、丑二
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: 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.