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Odawara: Porters Arguing over the Order in Which They Will Cross the River (Kawagoshi zengo o arasou), from the series Pictorial Guide to the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô: Customs of the Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi saiken zue, dôchû fûzoku)


「東海道五十三次細見図絵 小田原」 「道中風俗 川ごし前後をあらそふ」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Muratetsu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26139
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Mus., Hiroshige no giga (2023), #33; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #44.10; Miyao, Nihon no giga (1967), p. 146; Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #249
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村
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.