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In the Year of the Horse, at the Hour of the Horse on the 8th Day of the 5th Month, People Born in Earth and Water Signs Enter a Lucky Cycle (Uma gogatsu yôka uma no koku dosuisei uke ni iru): Actor Onoe Kikugorô IV (?) in Five Roles That Start with Fu, in a Boat (Fune), Passing Mount Fuji

(Japanese,
died in 1858)
1858 (Ansei 5), 3rd month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsHorizontal ôban; 25.6 x 37 cm (10 1/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.36823
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: January 19, 2005)

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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