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Clearing Weather of the Fan (Ôgi no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Accessories in the Modern World (Tôsei dôgu hakkei)
Clearing Weather of the Fan (Ôgi no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Accessories in the Modern World (Tôsei dôgu hakkei)

Clearing Weather of the Fan (Ôgi no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Accessories in the Modern World (Tôsei dôgu hakkei)

Kitao Masanobu (Santô Kyôden) (Japanese, 1761–1816)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsHosoban; 27.5 x 12.5 cm (10 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.19227
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
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.
Genroku-era Courtesans and Samurai
Kitao Masanobu (Santô Kyôden)
Two Women at the Orizuru Tea House
Kitao Masanobu (Santô Kyôden)
about 1782–3 (Tenmei 2–3)