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Shimabara in Kyoto: Nishikido Tayû of Kado-Toku, from the series Comparisons of the Customs of Beauties (Bijin fûzoku awase)


「美人風俗合 京島原 角徳内 錦戸太夫」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburô (Eirindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 25.2 cm (14 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17167
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, ôban #55.3
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
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.