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Kanagawa, from the series Human-interest Views of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi jinbutsushi)


「東海道五十三次人物志 神奈川」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1850 (Kaei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.6 x 37.6 cm (10 1/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16015
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki 1992, #46; Ochiai Naonari, Ukiyoe hangashi (1919, translation of Ficke), p. 398, pl. 85
DescriptionNo. 4 in the series.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi hitsu
一勇斎国芳筆
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印:衣笠、吉村
彫師: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.