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No. 47, On the Hill outside the Sakurada Gate (Sakurada-soto jô), from the series Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei)


「江戸名所四十八景 四十七 桜田外上」
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.1 x 18.3 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20523
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #16-47
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1750 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.20523, 11.26430, 2011.975.101, 2016.1242
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:酉正改
彫師:なし
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.