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Saemon's Cherry Blossoms (Emon sakura): Sonobe Saemon and Usuyuki-hime at Kiyomizu-dera
Saemon's Cherry Blossoms (Emon sakura): Sonobe Saemon and Usuyuki-hime at Kiyomizu-dera

Saemon's Cherry Blossoms (Emon sakura): Sonobe Saemon and Usuyuki-hime at Kiyomizu-dera

Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active about 1696–1716)
Komatsuya (Japanese)
about 1715 (Shôtoku 5)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color added later
Dimensions30 x 43.7 cm (11 13/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.19688
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.