View from the Upper Floor of the Aoyagi Restaurant: (Actor Arashi Rikan III as) Ono no Michikaze, from the series Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto kômei kaiseki zukushi)

「東都高名会席尽　青柳楼上眺望　小野道風」　三代目嵐璃寛

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirō (Shōrindō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 10th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 24.5 cm (14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.29305

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #8.01, pl. 37; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #48.2

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.29305, 11.30513

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on portrait); Hiroshige (on inset)
豊国画（年玉枠）、広重

Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Rat 10
No blockcutter's mark
No blockcutter's mark
改印：福、村松、子十
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.