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新版浮絵 東都両国橋繁花の図
Fireworks Like Flowers in Bloom at Ryôgoku Bridge in the Eastern Capital (Tôto Ryôgokubashi hanka no zu), from the series Newly Published Perspective Pictures (Shinpan uki-e)
新版浮絵 東都両国橋繁花の図
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Japanese
Edo period
1770s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 26.2 x 33.6 cm (10 5/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14717
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 23 (with lighter sky and intact margin)
DescriptionTitle, signature, and mark of publisher Sanoya Kihei in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed
(Utagawa Toyoharu ga, in right margin, cut off of this impression)
（歌川豊春画）
（歌川豊春画）
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
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.