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Miya, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road


東海道五十三次 「宮」
Yanagawa Shigenobu I (Japanese, 1787–1832)
In the manner of: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal kokonotsugiri (one-ninth ôban); 11.9 × 17.8 cm (4 11/16 × 7 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21007
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #3 (Hokusai list; mentions the 8 prints designed by Shigenobu as substitutes for the original double-wide designs by Hokusai)
DescriptionStation 42. A later substitute for the original double-width design by Hokusai (see 21.10283). MFA impressions of this design: 11.21007, 21.10288 .
For the complete set of this edition, bound as an album, see 1997.682 .
Signed Yanagawa ga
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.