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Group shot: 11.42014, 11.42016
Great Poetry Gathering (Dai-e kyô hai ten ku)
Group shot: 11.42014, 11.42016

Great Poetry Gathering (Dai-e kyô hai ten ku)

Gyokusai (Japanese, active late 1860s)
Zen (in lozenge) (Japanese)
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 5th month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban diptych; 35.7 x 48.7 cm (14 1/16 x 19 3/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.42014, 11.42016
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.
Great Poetry Gathering (Dai-e kyô hai ten ku)
Great Poetry Gathering (Dai-e kyô hai ten ku)
Gyokusai
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 5th month
The Best Hotpot in the World (Yo no naka mochi yori tanoshimi nabe)
The Best Hotpot in the World (Yo no naka mochi yori tanoshimi nabe)
Gyokusai
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 8th month
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Comb- Landscape
Kawai Gyokusai
19th century
Tsuba with design of Izanami and Izanagi, crow in sun and hare in moon, with clouds and waves
Tsuba with design of Izanami and Izanagi, crow in sun and hare in moon, with clouds and waves
Katsugo Gyokusai
Late 19th century
Group shot: 50.21, 11.21692
Apprentice Courtesan (Shinzô) (right), Female Peddler (Onna akindo) (left), from the book Comparisons of the Customs of Women (Onna fûzoku shinasadame)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
about 1795 (Kansei 7)
Group shot: 11.14959-60
Courtesans Parading at New Year: Komurasaki of the Tamaya and Sanshû of the Tsutaya (Tamaya uchi Komurasaki, Tsutaya uchi Sanshû)
Gokyô
about 1790 (Kansei 2)
Fukuroi: (Actor Arashi Rikan III as) Tadanobu, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)
Fukuroi: (Actor Arashi Rikan III as) Tadanobu, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1852 (Kaei 5), 5th month
Caged Birds, from the series Twelve Assorted Birds (Shochô jûnikin)
Caged Birds, from the series Twelve Assorted Birds (Shochô jûnikin)
Chôbunsai Eishi
about 1791 (Kansei 3)
Clear Morning after Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge (Nihonbashi yukibare no asa), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
Clear Morning after Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge (Nihonbashi yukibare no asa), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
Utagawa Hiroshige I
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)
Mimeguri Embankment on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Mimeguri tsutsumi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)
Mimeguri Embankment on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Mimeguri tsutsumi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 2nd month
Shaving the Head of Fukurokuju
Shaving the Head of Fukurokuju
Kitagawa Utamaro II
View of the Sumida River with the Mimeguri Shrine and Mount Tsukuba, picture 7 from the shunga album Haru no usuyuki (Passion in the Snows of Spring)
View of the Sumida River with the Mimeguri Shrine and Mount Tsukuba, picture 7 from the shunga album Haru no usuyuki (Passion in the Snows of Spring)
Keisai Eisen
1822 (Bunsei 5)