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Visiting Komagata-dô Temple, from the series Eight Views of the Area of Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan hakkei)


「浅草金龍山八境」 駒形堂 (校合摺)
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1782 (Tenmei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21805
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #175-6 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #218.6, pl. 104; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #453, pl. XXVII
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21805 (key block), 21.5602 (color)

Formerly identified as Matsuchiyama Temple, but now considered to represent Komagata-dô.
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
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.