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Fighting over a Letter, from the series Modern Eastern Brocade Prints (Tôsei Azuma nishiki-e)


「当世東にしき絵」 文
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Azumaya Daisuke (Kinshûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1819–20 (Bunsei 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vartica ôban; 37.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42339
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ushiyama, Kunisada hyakusen gashû, zokuhen (1928), #14; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-17
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.42339, 34.516
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: January 19, 2005)

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.