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Descending Geese in the Inner Precincts of the Kannon Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa Kannon okuyama no rakugan), from the series Newly Published Perspective Pictures of Eight Views of Edo (Shinpan uki-e Edo meisho hakkei)


「新版浮絵江戸名所八景 浅草観音奥山ノ落雁」
Utagawa Kuninaga (Japanese, died in 1827)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.7 x 38.1 cm (10 1/8 x 15 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14994
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kuninaga ga
国長画
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.