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Wrapper for the book (Soga shinzu) Tsûshin gafu, zen


「麁画 真図 通神画譜 全」 袋
Aikawa Minwa (Japanese)
Publisher: Honya Kichibei (Rankeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1819 (Bunsei 2)

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 Number11.45857.20
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The book: Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 5 (1990), p. 730
DescriptionIntact wrapper, folded and glued.

Album: 11.45857.1-28
Signed Aikawatei Minwa ga
合川亭眠和画
Marks Publisher: Tamiya Rankeidô han (=Honya Kichibei)
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.