Always Remember Your Duty and Your Underwear (Giri to fundoshi), As Busy As If Obon and New Year Were Combined (Bon to shôgatsu) (R); A Bell Hanging from a Lantern (Chôchin ni tsurigane), Three People Together Are as Wise as the Bodhisattva Monju (Sannin sureba Monju no chie) (L); from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
Kawanabe Kyôsai
(Japanese, 1831–1889)
1863–66 (Bunkyû 3–Keiô 2)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsTwo vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban) on uncut horizontal chûban sheet; 18.1 x 24 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.45393.2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPrints
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: 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.
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.
