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Gathering Bamboo Shoots in the Garden (Sono no kodakegari), from the series Pine, Bamboo, and Plum in the Modern Style (Imayo shochikubai no zu)


「今様松竹梅之内 園の子竹狩」
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Kiya Sôjirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Utakichi (Hori Uta) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.6 × 69.1 cm (14 × 27 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41773a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G076-02 (no photo)
Signed Kunichika hitsu (on each sheet)
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragaon 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ôta Utakichi (on center sheet)
改印:辰二改
彫師:彫太田卯多吉
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.