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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Niwaka Festival Dancer (Niwaka), from the series Contest of [Present-day] Beauties ([Tôsei] Bijin awase)


「(当世)美人合 俄」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Moritaya Hanzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1827

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 25.4 cm (14 1/4 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42332
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #89
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.42332 (deaccessioned in 2012), 34.460
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: 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.