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Listening to Crickets at Dôkan Hill (Dôkan-yama mushi-kiki no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 道灌山虫聞之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.2 x 35.7 cm (9 1/8 x 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17259
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #54.16, pl. 522; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #63.08; Tanba 1965, #39; Matsuki 1939, #34
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.910 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17259, 21.9883, RES.54.186
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
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.