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Faith (Shin), from the series A Set of Five [Virtues] for the Katsushika Group (Katsushika goban)


「かつしか五番 信」
Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
early to mid 1810s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.4 x 18.2 cm (8 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25176
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 405
DescriptionPoems translated in Polster & Marks 2000, p. 401.
Signed (seal only)
Marks Artist's seal: Shunman
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.