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(Kacho yojô) Azuma Genji (Deep Feelings of Birds and Flowers: Genji of the East)

1837 (Tenpô 8)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock printed book; ink, color and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions26.0 x 18.8 cm (ôhon)
Credit LineSource unidentified
Accession number2008.1219.1-3
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Provenance2008, accessioned by the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: November 17, 2008)

NOTE:
This work may have been part of the group sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston, by 1909, and given by Bigelow to the MFA in 1909.

Volume I
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1825 (Bunsei 8)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1842 (Tenpô 13)
Shiki no nagame (Songs of the Four Seasons)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
about 1829–30 (Bunsei 12–Tenpô 1)