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The Hôraitei Restaurant: (Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as) Urashima, from the series Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto kômei kaiseki zukushi)


「東都高名会席尽 蓬莱亭 浦しま」 四代目中村歌右衛門
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29706
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #8.44, pl. 80; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #48.43
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.29706, 11.30516, *11.45315 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.45316
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on portrait); Hiroshige (on inset)
豊国画(年玉枠)、広重
Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome, Ox 1
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜、馬込、丑正
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.