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Yanagibashi, from the series Twelve Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûni kei)


「東京十二景 柳ばし」
Ishii Hakutei (Japanese, 1882–1958)
Japanese
late Meiji era
about 1910 (Meiji 43)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.3 x 26 cm (15 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1117
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Morse, ed., Reinventing Tokyo (2012), #41; Hamanaka & Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 2; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga I (1997), #141; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #49
Signed Hakutei hitsu
ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)