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Akazome Emon, from the series Fashionable Female Six Poetic Immortals (Fûryû onna rokkasen)

(Japanese, 1787–1867)
1811 (Bunka 8), 5th month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; about 38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.41511
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsPoem: Yasurawade/ nenamashi mono o/ sayo fukete/ katamuku made no/ tsuki o mishi ka na 「やすらはでねなましものをさよふてかたむくまての月を見しかな」
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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