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Moon at Takanawa: The Style of a Geisha (Takanawa tsuki, geisha fû), from the series Fashionable Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Fûryû setsugekka)


「風流雪月花 高輪月 けいしやふう」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Shimizu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1807 (Bunka 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25482
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #205.2 and cat. no. 8; Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura (1919), #231
DescriptionPrints in the series: 11.14307 and 11.25483 (snow), 11.25482 (moon), 11.25481 (flowers)
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Hare 9
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.