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True Depiction of the Monkey Bridge in Kai Province (Kai no kuni saruhashi no shinsha no zu)


「甲斐国猿橋ノ真写之図」
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 37.2 cm (10 1/4 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17530
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #125 (earlier ed., with clouds and additional bokashi); Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura (1919), #341 (also earlier ed.)
Signed Shôtei Hokuju ga
昇亭北寿画
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.