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Love Letter Attached to a Plum Branch, from an untitled series of Yoshiwara scenes with poems


吉原の俳諧 梅が枝
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Edo period
1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26 x 37 cm (10 1/4 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13348
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionProbably from the same series: 11.13348 to 11.13354. 11.13354, the final sheet, has the signature "Yamato eshi Okumura Masanobu zu" and the name of publisher Sudô Gonbei (Yamaguchiya).
Signed (this sheet unsigned)
無款
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.