Kanagawa: View of the Embankment (Kanagawa, dai no kei), first version, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

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Kanagawa: View of the Embankment (Kanagawa, dai no kei), first version, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

「東海道五十三次之内　神奈川　台之景」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped

Dimensions Horizontal ôban, creped; about 19.1 × 25.4 cm (7 1/2 × 10 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.25070

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.04

DescriptionNo. 04 in the series, first version.

MFA impressions:
First version: 11.26100, 11.38935, 11.38936, 21.5001, 21.5096, 2009.2411.4; deaccessioned in 2012: *11.23082, *11.25070, *11.45561
Second version: 06.1375, 11.17281, 21.5002; deaccessioned in 2012: *11.17282, *11.38892

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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.