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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Evening Bell at Mii-dera Temple (Mii banshô), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 三井晩鐘」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
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 Number11.17251
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #68; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.7
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.17251 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.17254, 21.6794, 21.6795, 21.6796

Signature and publisher's mark in upper left corner, torn off of this impression.
Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; torn off of this impression)
改印:(極)
InscriptionsPoem: Omou sono/ akatsuki chigiru/ hajime zo to/ matsu kiku Mii no/ iriai no kane
思ふその 暁ちきる はしめそと まつきく三井の 入あいのかね
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.