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An Amateur Prostitute, also called a White Petticoat, at Ponto-chô in Kyoto (Rakuyô Ponto-chô honzume ichimei shiro-yumoji), from the series Pictorial Gathering of Remarkable Women of the Floating World (Ukiyo meijo zue)


「浮世名異女図会 洛陽ぽんと町 本詰 一名白ゆもし」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1821 (Bunsei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 23.7 cm (14 9/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15695
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ushiyama, Kunisada hyakusen gashû, zokuhen (1928), #25; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-22
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
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.