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Perspective Picture of the Spiral Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Uki-e Gohyaku rakan-ji Sazaidô no zu)


「浮絵 五百羅漢 右繞三帀堂」
Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.7 x 38 cm (10 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14976
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kitao Shigemasa ga
北尾重政画
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.