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Hakone: (Actor Iwai Hanshirô VI as) Hatsuhana, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)


「東海道五十三次の内 箱根 初花」 六代目岩井半四郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 24.5 cm (14 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29425
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Peternolli & Guidi, Kunisada (Bologna, 2017), #52; Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-11, pp. 125, 127; Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #299 (actor identified as Kumesaburô VI)
DescriptionStation no. 11.

MFA impressions: 11.29425, 11.29472, 11.29525.8, 11.43316, 11.43317, 59.1147.39
Forms a diptych with: 11.29066, 11.29397, 11.29479, 11.29524.26, 11.43318, 59.1147.40
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 3
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:米良、渡辺、子三
彫師:彫竹
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.