Twenty-Third Year of Meiji: the National Diet Building (Meiji nijûsan-nen, Kokkai gijidô no zu) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Twenty-Third Year of Meiji: the National Diet Building (Meiji nijûsan-nen, Kokkai gijidô no zu)

Twenty-Third Year of Meiji: the National Diet Building (Meiji nijûsan-nen, Kokkai gijidô no zu)

「明治廿三年國會議事堂之圖」

Yôsai Nobukazu (Japanese, 1872–1944)
Publisher: Yokoyama Ryôhachi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1890 (Meiji 23), April

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.5 x 75.6 cm (14 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection

Accession Number2000.525a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #61; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #39, photo p. 32

Signed Yôsai Nobukazu ga
楊斎延一画

Inscriptions

ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)