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The Tenma Bridge in Settsu Province (Sesshû Tenmabashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyô kiran)


「諸国名橋奇覧 摂州天満橋」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834 (Tenpô 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.5 x 36.9 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25216
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ôban #19.09
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.17599 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.25216, 21.10179
Signed Saski no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
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.