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Wrapper for the book (Kadô iemoto Mishô goryû) Kenbi chitose no hana


「華道家元 未生御流 献備千歳花」 袋
Japanese
Edo period
Preface of book: 1839 (Tenpô 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 23.9 × 18.8 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45857.2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The book: Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 3 (1990), p. 154
DescriptionIntact wrapper, folded and glued.

MFA impressions: 11.45857.2, 11.45857.26
The book, rebound with wrapper as frontispiece: 2011.717

A book on the Mishôsai school of flower arranging, founded in Osaka in 1807.
Preface by Minamoto Masayuki 源正行

Album: 11.45857.1-28
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.