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Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekishô), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 瀬田夕照」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.2 x 36 cm (9 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17242
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #70; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.5
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1496, 11.17242, 21.6801, 21.6802

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Tsuyu shigure/ moru yama tôku/ sugikitsutsu/ yûhi no wataru/ Seta no nagahashi
露しくれ 守やまとおく 過木つゝ 夕日のわたる 勢多の長はし
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.