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浮絵金龍山開帳之図
Perspective Picture of a Special Exhibition of an Image at Kinryûzan Temple (Uki-e Kinryûzan kaichô no zu)
浮絵金龍山開帳之図
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Japanese
Edo period
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 24.5 x 36.4 cm (9 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14721
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #72 (some differences in color blocks); Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #16; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #233
DescriptionTitle, signature, and mark of publisher Matsumura Yahei 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.