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Street Scene at Night


江戸の夜
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Mikawaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s (Bunsei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 24.5 cm (14 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15190
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Utagawa ha (Kobijutsu special issue 7, 1986), #78 (complete triptych); Ukiyo-e taikei 10 (1976), #s 131-3 (complete triptych)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.15190 (left), 11.40118 (right), 2016.1301 (center); no VR
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.