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Yanagibashi Bridge in Ryôgoku: The Umegawa Restaurant (Ryôgoku Yanagibashi, Umegawa), from the series Famous Restaurants of Edo (Edo kômei kaitei zukushi)


「江戸高名会亭尽 両国柳ばし 梅川」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1838–40 (Tenpô 9–11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.8 x 36.5 cm (9 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26359
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #56.28, pl. 572; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #7.28
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.26356, 11.26359
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.