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Daikoku Lifting Rice Bale


大黒
Nanboku (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)?

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink on paper
Dimensions 16.8 × 11.2 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
Overall (each page): 30.6 × 22 cm (12 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45860
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMounted in album: 11.45860.1 to .49

If the expresion "kinoe ne" in the poem is a reference to the cyclical year, then the print may have been made for New Year of 1804. 1864 is another possibility.
Signed Nanboku ga
南北画
InscriptionsPoem: Kinoe ne ya / ...
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.