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Party Scene in the Yoshiwara

(Japanese, dates unknown)
dated 1800 (Kansei 12)
Medium/TechniqueHanging scroll; ink and color on silk
DimensionsImage: 39.2 x 51.5 cm (15 7/16 x 20 1/4 in.)
Overall: 129.5 x 62.5 cm (51 x 24 5/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.7952
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
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.
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