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Seven-Mile Beach at Enoshima (Enoshima Shichiri-ga-hama)


「江之嶋七里ヶ浜」
Shôtei Hokuju (Japanese, 1763–1824)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804–24 (Bunka 1–Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17634
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kobe City Art Mus., Megane-e to Tôkaidô (1984), #42; Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #372; Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 125 (Nishimuraya ed.)
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Nishimuraya edition (earlier): 06.1068, 11.39637, RES.54.182
Yamamotoya edition (later): 06.1355, 11.17634
Signed Hokuju ga
北寿画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.