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No. 9, Benten Shrine in Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu-ike Benten), from the series Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei)


「江戸名所四十八景 第九 不忍池弁天」
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.5 x 18.4 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26419
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #16-9
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1742 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.20557, 11.26419, 2011.975.63, 2016.1227
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 12 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:申十二改
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.