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All Kinds of Things: Prizes Drawn at the Lucky Lottery (Kotogoto naru mono, fukubiki ni idasu keibutsu), from the series The Pillow Book for the Mutsumi Group (Mutsumigawa bantsuzuki Makura no sôshi)

(Japanese, 1780–1850)
late 1810s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
DimensionsShikishiban; 21.6 x 18.2 cm (8 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.20171
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsPoem by Hôkan Fukuzumi: FUkubiki ni/ FUto tori-etaru/ OtaFUku ya/ FUe o FUkasete/ FUri mo yoku maFU Poem by Morinoya Nakatsura: Omoshiroku/ warafu kado niwa/ fukubiki no/nawa nimo yori o/ kakete torasen
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.