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Rokugô Ferry, from the series Souvenirs of Enoshima, a Set of Sixteen (Enoshima kikô, jûrokuban tsuzuki)


「江島記行 六郷 十六番続き」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.8 x 17.6 cm (8 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20985
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné McKee, Colored in the Year's New Light (Becker coll. exh. ca., 2008), #63; Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #110
DescriptionSpring kyôka surimono for the Manji poetry club.
Poems translated in McKee 2008, p. 140.
Signed Hokkei
北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Morinoya Mikage: Kawabata ni/ tachite fune machi/ taoyame to/ mireba kebureru/ yanagi arikeri
Poem by Shinro Asobito: Sentô no/ fune machi waburu/ kokoro niwa/ watari fune o/ etaru harusame
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.