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Women Catching Fireflies


蛍狩りの女
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1796–97 (Kansei 8–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.5 x 72 cm (14 x 28 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23043-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), #69; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #85; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 214, list no. 278
DescriptionTriptych: 11.23043 (center), 11.23044 (right), 11.23043 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.23043-5, 21.7377-9
Signed Eishi zu (on each sheet)
栄之図
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.