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Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan, by Ichiryûsai Hiroshige (Dai Nihon Rokujûyoshû meisho zue, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga)


「大日本六十余州名所図絵 一立斎広重画」 目録
Miyagi Gengyo (Japanese, 1817–1880)
For: Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 24.4 cm (14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26220
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), pp. 28-9
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.26220, RES.53.179
Signed Gengyo ga
玄魚画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 9
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰九
彫師:なし
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.