View of Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima no kei), from the series The Eastern Capital (Tôto)

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View of Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima no kei), from the series The Eastern Capital (Tôto)

「東都佃島之景」

Shōtei Hokuju (Japanese, 1763–1824)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1804–24 (Bunka 1–Bunsei 7)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.5 x 37.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1157

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musée Guimet II (1990), pl. 140; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #3911; Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 129 (Yamamotoya ed.)

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1157 (pub. Nishimuraya Yohachi), 11.25140 (Yamamotoya Heikichi), 50.275 (Nishimuraya Yohachi)

Signed Hokuju ga
北寿画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)