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Image Not Available for Kyôka mutamagawa (Verse for the Six Jewel Rivers)
Kyôka mutamagawa (Verse for the Six Jewel Rivers)
Image Not Available for Kyôka mutamagawa (Verse for the Six Jewel Rivers)

Kyôka mutamagawa (Verse for the Six Jewel Rivers)

Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Fundarikaan
dates unknown
Medium/TechniquePages of a woodblock printed book; ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 22.2 x 15.5 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.); hanshibon
Credit LineSource unidentified
Accession number1997.558
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 1997, catalogued by the MFA; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper 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 between about 1890 and 1903.
Totoya Hokkei
about early 1820s
Totoya Hokkei
Preface and page 12 of text: 1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1)