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Chiryû, No. 40 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi)


「東海道五十三次 池鯉鮒 四十」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 11.7 x 17.5 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20338
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #5.40; the series: Lane, Hokusai Life and Work (1989), #64
Signed (this picture unsigned)
無款
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.