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「能楽百番 鵺」
Nue, from the series One Hundred Nô Plays (Nôgaku hyakuban)
「能楽百番 鵺」
Japanese
Meiji era
1922–26 (Taishô 11–15)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.2 × 25.5 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1498
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schaap & Rimer, Beauty of Silence (2010), #73, and Appendix 2, #74
DescriptionThe 120 prints in this series were sold in envelopes of three sheets each, issued monthly from July 1922 to 1926 (with a gap of about a year following the disastrous earthquake of September 1923).
Signed
Kôgyo
耕漁
耕漁
Marks
Artist's seal
ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)