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No. 16 - Kanbara: Ferry on the Fuji River (Fujikawa funawatari), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi)


「東海道 十六 五十三次之内 蒲原 富士川舟渡」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1850–51 (Kaei 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 18 x 25.8 cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26150
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #23.16
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.26150, 2009.5010.15, 2019.1974.16
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、村田
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.