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Shinobazu, from the series The Dutch Picture Lens: Eight Views of Edo (Oranda gakyô, Edo hakkei)


阿蘭陀画鏡 江戸八景 「不忍」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal koban; 8.6 x 11.4 cm (3 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20163
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hokusai Updated (2019), #83-3; MFA, Hokusai (2013), #18-4; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #87; Calza, Hokusai (2003), III.23.1-9; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 226, horizontal koban #1.7
DescriptionThe complete series 11.20162 to 11.20169, plus wrapper, 11.37810
Signed Signature on wrapper
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.