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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Arai: Woman with Travel Diary, from the series Fifty-three Pairings for the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsui)


「東海道五十三対 あらゐ 旅日記」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kojimaya Jûbei (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 Number11.30434
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T78-32; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musee Guimet II (1990), fig. 39; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S44.33
DescriptionStation 32, from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.

MFA impressions: 11.22412, *11.30434 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.45385.32
Signed Ôju Toyokuni ga
応需豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村
彫師:なし
Inscriptions李花集云
 延元四年春の頃遠江国井伊城浜名の橋かすみ渡り橋本の松原はまの浪かけてはるばると見わたしあたゆふべの気色おもしろくおぼえ侍りければ
夕暮はみれともみことしらすぎの
いり海かけてかすむ松原
       宗良親王
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.