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Kashiwagi: Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, from the series Seven Patterns in a Genji Picture Contest (Shichi moyô Genji eawase)
Kashiwagi: Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, from the series Seven Patterns in a Genji Picture Contest (Shichi moyô Genji eawase)

Kashiwagi: Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, from the series Seven Patterns in a Genji Picture Contest (Shichi moyô Genji eawase)

Kitagawa Utamaro II (Japanese, ?–1831?)
Tsuruya Kinsuke (Sôkakudô) (Japanese)
1807 (Bunka 4), 6th month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 38.3 x 26 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.14284
On View
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsPoem: Ima wa tote/ moeru keburi mo/ musubôre/ taenu omoi no/ nao ya nokoramuProvenanceBy 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.