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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Shinagawa: Shirai Gonpachi, from the series Fifty-three Pairings for the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsui)


「東海道五十三対 品川」 白井権八
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ibaya Kyûbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.4 cm (14 9/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28625
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T78-02; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S44.2
DescriptionStation 02, from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.

MFA impressions: 11.25031, *11.28625 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.45385.2
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem by Umeya.
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.