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Viewing Cherry Blossoms from the Kiyomizu Hall at Tôeizan Temple in Ueno (Ueno Tôeizan chû Kiyomizudô no hanami), from the series Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 上野東叡山中清水堂花見」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839 (Tenpô 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 33 x 13 cm (13 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26207
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #103.4, pl. 1031; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, chûtanzaku #4.4; Tanba 1965, #33
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1639, 11.26207, 21.7076
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
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.