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No. 9, Ōiso: Saigyō's Hermitage at Snipe Marsh (Ōiso, Shigitatsusawa Saigyō-an), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tōkaidō


「五十三次名所図会 九 大磯 鴫立沢西行庵」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizō (Kōeidō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ōban; 36.7 x 24.5 cm (14 7/16 x 9 2/3 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30259
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shūka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ōban #24.09
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1196, 11.16772, 11.30259, 21.5256, 21.5257
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、卯七
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.