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Clearing Weather at Awazu (Awazu seiran), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 粟津晴嵐」
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; 23.9 x 37.8 cm (9 7/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17250
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #74; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.1
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.863 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.1019 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17250, 21.6799, 21.6800

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Kumo harau/ arashi ni tsurete/ momo fune mo/ chi fune mo nami no/ Awazu ni zo yoru
雲はらふ あらしにつれて 百ふねも 千ふねもなみの あわ津にそよる
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.