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Day, the Hour of the Dragon (Hiru, tatsu no koku): Kimiginu (?) and Sodeginu of the Wakanaya, from the series The Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters (Seirô jûni toki)


「若那屋内 訓衣 袖衣」 「青楼十二時 昼 辰刻」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Sôshûya Yohei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.8 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17835
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #51.5 (no photo); other prints in the series: cat. nos. 79-86
Signed Kiku Eizan hitsu
菊英山筆
Marks No censor's seal
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.