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Night Procession of the Hundred Demons


Hyakki yakô zu
百鬼夜行図巻
Toriyama Sekien (Japanese, 1712–1788)
Japanese
Edo period
about An'ei era (1772–81)

Medium/Technique Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions Other (Height x width: [mikaeshi]): 28.1 x 26.4 cm (11 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Other (Height x width: [mikaeshi] including jiku): 29.8 x 46.2 cm (11 3/4 x 18 3/16 in.)
Image: 27.9 x 431.1 cm (11 x 169 3/4 in.)
Overall: 29.7 x 503.8 cm (11 11/16 x 198 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7705
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 36; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 267
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.