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Kusatsu: Famous Post House (Kusatsu, Meibutsu tateba), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 草津 名物立場」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.2 x 36.4 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/3 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23107
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Toraya, Atsumeru tanoshimi (Yoshida coll., 2012), p. 96; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.53
DescriptionNo. 53 in the series.

MFA impressions: *06.883 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.1962 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17272, *11.17273 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.23107, 11.38861, 11.38862, *11.38863 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.38864 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.5083, 2009.2411.53
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.