Evening Bell of the Great Buddha Temple (Daibutsu no banshô): Utaura and Iwanami of Sado (?), from the series Eight Views of the Elegant Courtesans of Shinagawa (Shinagawa kunshi hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Evening Bell of the Great Buddha Temple (Daibutsu no banshô): Utaura and Iwanami of Sado (?), from the series Eight Views of the Elegant Courtesans of Shinagawa (Shinagawa kunshi hakkei)

Evening Bell of the Great Buddha Temple (Daibutsu no banshô): Utaura and Iwanami of Sado (?), from the series Eight Views of the Elegant Courtesans of Shinagawa (Shinagawa kunshi hakkei)

「品川君姿八景　大仏の晩鐘　佐渡　哥うら　おなしく　岩なみ」　（品川君競八景ヵ）

Attributed to: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1780

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 24.6 cm (14 13/16 x 9 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1125

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #s 1367 and 1368

DescriptionTwo other prints from the unsigned series are in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, which reads the fourth character in the series title as "kurabe" rather than "sugata."
The mysterious blockcutter's mark also appears on a print by Torii Kiyohiro, dateable to 1760, in the Art Institute of Chicago: Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 241, #18.

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks Blockcutter's mark: Tsûsen
彫師：通仙

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross