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Comical Pictures (Dôke kyôga)


「道化狂画」
Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active 1848–1870)
Publisher: Kakumotoya Kinjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 × 25.8 cm (14 5/8 × 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22752
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Warau ukiyo-e (2013), #181; Miyao, Nihon no giga (1967), p. 166
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22752, 11.37492, 11.39724, 11.39725, 11.39726
Signed Ichijusai Yoshikazu kyôga
一寿斎芳員狂画
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 4
No blockcutter's mark
改印:午四
彫師:なし
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.