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In the Storehouse with a Lantern, from the series Secret Meetings by Moonlight (Tsuki no kage shinobiau yoru)


「月の陰忍逢ふ夜」 蔵の中
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15210
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #73/2; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-87
Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
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: 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.