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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Twilight Snow at Mount Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 比良暮雪」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; about 25.4 × 38.1 cm (10 × 15 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17243
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #72; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.6; Michener, Floating World (1954), #61 and pp. 222-3
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1249 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17243 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.17255, 21.6807 (variant), 21.6808

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997). Variants discusszed in Michener, Floating World (1954), pp. 222-3.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Yuki haruru/ Hira no takane no/ yûgure wa/ hana no sakari ni/ suguru koro ka na
雪はるる 比良の高嶺の 夕ぐれは 花のさかりに すぐるころかな
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.