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The Three Famous Scenic Views (Sankei no uchi): No. 3, Miyajima: Takafusa


「三景の内 宮島 其三 高房」
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24962
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mirviss w/ Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking (2000), #57 (C only); Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 1, #s 151-2 (R and C only); Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 157 (R and L only)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.24692 (left), 11.24693 (right), 11.24694 (center); no virtual record

MFA impressions: 11.24692 (left), 11.24693 (right), 11.24694 (center) (photographed separately, no virtual record); 21.10401-3 (photographed together)
Signed Hokkei
北渓
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.