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Watching Fireworks in the Cool of the Evening at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgokubashi yûsuzumi hanabi kenbutsu no zu), from the series Newly Published Perspective Pictures (Shinpan uki-e)


「新版浮絵 両国橋夕涼花火見物之図」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1780s (Tenmei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.5 x 35.7 cm (10 1/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17580
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hokusai Updated (2019), #24; MFA, Hokusai (2013), #12; Calza, Hokusai (2003), I.4A and I.4B; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ôban #8; Ukiyo-e taikei 8 (1975), #7; Hokusai ten (1967), print #3; Munezaki et al., Zaigai hihô 3, Hokusai (1972), #1
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17580, 21.10202
Signed Katsu Shunrô ga
勝春朗画
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.