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「風流江戸八景 上野の晩鐘」
Evening Bell at Ueno (Ueno no banshô), from the series Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Fûryû Edo hakkei)
「風流江戸八景 上野の晩鐘」
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768 (Meiwa 5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 27.3 x 20.4 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19478
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #118; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #316; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #323.5, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 139
Signed
Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
鈴木春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Kono yama no/ koro machietaru/ hana sakari/ yoso ni wa tsuke yo/ iriai no kane
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.
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.