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No. 27, Tamagiku, from the series An Excellent Selection of Thirty-six Noted Courtesans (Meigi sanjûroku kasen)


「名妓三十六佳撰 玉ぎくの話 二十七」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.6 × 25.2 cm (14 7/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42780
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné C's Ukiyo-e Museum, http://homepage2.nifty.com/ukiyo-e/index.html ; POLA Research Inst., Edo bijin no yosooi (2018), pp. 76-7
Signed Ôju Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
応需豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:酉正改
彫師:なし
Inscriptions玉ぎくの話

おのれ さるころ 友人なる 梅屋のあるじ
栄中子が ひざうの こぶ川玉ぎくの
まくら てふもの ひめおかるる うつはの
ふたに かの太夫が ふでのすさびに おのが
身の うきを まくらに よばへたる 枕の
ちり てふ かんなぶみの すゑにものし
たる よみうたを いと おこながら 前々
筆に かいつけはべりしことあり
しを ふと おもひ出て 左にしるす

 ちりはらふ まくらにさへも
 おもなしや 夜ごと
 ことなる 夢むすぶ身は

 三亭春馬 記
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.