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Ono no Tôfu and a Giant Frog at the Aoyagi Restaurant (above); Men Tricked by Foxes (below)


青柳の会席で小野の道風と蛙(上)、狐にだまされた男達(下)
Kyôgadô Katsubumi (Japanese, active about 1830–1854)
Publisher: Jôshûya Jûzô / Jûbei (Kinjûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two horizontal chûban on uncut vertical ôban sheet; 35.3 x 23.9 cm (13 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37166
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kyôgadô Katsubumi (on each design)
狂画堂勝文
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.