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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Four Stations: Nihonbashi, Shinagawa, Kawasaki, and Kanagawa, from the series Famous Views of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan eki yonshuku meisho)


「東海道五拾三駅四宿名所」 日本橋、品川、川崎、神奈川
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830–35 (Tenpô 1–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.6 x 35.7 cm (9 5/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22949
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki 1992, #33
DescriptionSheet 1 of 12.

MFA impressions: *11.22949 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.26055, 11.30210
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi shukuzu (sketched by Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi; in right margin, almost cut off of this impression)
一勇斎国芳縮図
Marks No censor's seal
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.