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A Human Textile Pattern to Stop You from Yawning: With Fourteen Bodies, It Looks Like Thirty-five People (Akubi dome jinbutsu sarasa, jûyonin no karada ni te sanjûgonin ni miyuru)


「欠留人物更紗 十四人のからだにて三十五人にミゆる」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1842 (Tenpô 13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.3 x 26.2 cm (9 3/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15986
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #84; Iwakiri 2011, #311; Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #230; Suzuki 1992, #381; Inagaki, Edo no asobi-e (1988), #4
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi giga
一勇斎国芳戯画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.