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The Tale of Genji: The Wind in the Pines (Genji Matsukaze), no. 18 from the series Genji in Fifty-Four Sheets (Genji gojûyonmai no uchi)
The Tale of Genji: The Wind in the Pines (Genji Matsukaze), no. 18 from the series Genji in Fifty-Four Sheets (Genji gojûyonmai no uchi)

The Tale of Genji: The Wind in the Pines (Genji Matsukaze), no. 18 from the series Genji in Fifty-Four Sheets (Genji gojûyonmai no uchi)

Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)
Izumiya Gonshirô (Japanese)
about 1735 (Kyôhô 20)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied and stenciled color and metallic powder
DimensionsHorizontal hosoban; 16.2 x 33.8cm (6 3/8 x 13 5/16in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.19132
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsPoem: Mi o kaete/ hitori kaereru/ yamazato ni/ kikishi ni nitaru/ matsukaze zo fukuProvenanceBy 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.