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Shower on Nihon Embankment (Nihonzutsumi no shigure); A Cuckoo's Cry at Dawn When One Is Thinking of Sleeping In (Itsuzuke to omou yoake no hototogisu), from the series Famous Places in Edo Matched with Riddles of the Heart (Tôto meisho, Kokoro no nazo sugata awase)


「東都名所 心の謎姿合 日本堤の時雨 居続けと思ふ夜明郭公」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 25 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17896
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), list #308.1 (no photo)
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
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.