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No. 1, Nihonbashi: Snowy Morning (Nihonbashi, yuki no akebono), from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road (here called Kisokaidô tsuzuki no ichi)


「木曾街道続ノ壱 日本橋 雪之曙」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–38 (Tenpô 6–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.7 x 35.5 cm (9 1/3 x 14 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25640
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #230; Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #92; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #33.01
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.25640, 21.4792, 21.4793
Signed Eisen ga
英泉画
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.