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Evening Market at Asakusa (Asakusa no kure no ichi), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho hakkei)


「東都名所八景 浅草の暮ノ市」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 25.3 cm (14 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17737
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #115.1 (no photo); other prints in the series: cat. nos. 254-5
DescriptionThe complete series: 11.17735 to 11.17742.
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Yamaguchiya Tôbei
改印:極、山口
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.