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Usuyuki, the Kogô Scene (Usuyuki Kogô no dan), from the series Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)


大和色竹 「うす雪こがうの段」
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Sudô Gonbei (Yamaguchiya) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1705–6 (Hôei 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.1 x 36.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. )
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13183
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1807; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #55; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 120, #11; Shibui, "Masanobu no sumi-e," Ukiyo-e no kenkyû VI.3 (March 1929), #B-10
Signed On the final sheet in the series: Yamato eshi Okumura Masanobu zu
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.