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Woman Playing Shamisen and Man Chanting (R) and Woman Carrying a Bucket of Flowers (L), from the book (Yamato fûryû) Nishikawa tsuya sugata


(大和風流)西川艶姿より
After: Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671–1750)
Japanese
Meiji-era impression from Edo-period block?

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions 25.6 x 37.9 cm (10 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45424
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionOrihon album page with two designs.
MFA impressions: 11.145424 (late, poor impression of uncut sheet), 11.13197 (right side), 11.13198 (left side)
The intact book: 2006.1572
Signed Yamato eshi Nishikawa Sukenobu hitsu (on each design)
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.