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Erotic Contest of Flowers

Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Japanese
Edo period
Hôei era (1704–11)

Medium/Technique Handscroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions Overall: 39 x 536.9 cm (15 3/8 x 211 3/8 in.)
Image: 34.8 x 507.8 cm (13 11/16 x 199 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.234
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 6; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #22
Signed Eshi Torii Kiyonobu zu
Marks seal: Kiyonobu
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)