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No. 6: Shimada, Kanaya, Nissaka, from the series Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)


東海道張交図絵 「東海六 島田 金谷 日坂」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban (harimaze); 36.3 x 25.4 cm (14 1/4 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17219
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #46.06
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17219 (uncut sheet, Ibaya edition), 54.1542 (Kanaya), RES.49.11 (uncut sheet, reprint edition with no publisher's mark)
Signed Hiroshige (on Shimada picture)
広重
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: nine petals
改印:衣笠、渡辺
彫師: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.