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Woman Adjusting Her Hairstyle, from the series Comparison of Beauties in Eastern Brocade (Azuma nishiki bijin awase)


「東錦美人合」 髪結い
Torii Kiyomitsu II (Kiyomine) (Japanese, 1787–1868)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804–10 (Bunka 1–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.1 x 25.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18060
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #C26, pl. CXXV; another print in the series: Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #59; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #1621
Signed Kiyomine hitsu
清峰筆
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.