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Narihira's Journey to the East: Passing Mount Fuji


業平東下り
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.5 x 37.7 cm (10 1/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25529
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #344.6 and cat. no. 339
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
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.