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Benkei Bridge at Akasaka-mitsuke (Akasaka-mitsuke Benkei-bashi), from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue)


東京回顧図絵 「べんけいばし」 赤坂見附弁慶橋
Sekino Jun'ichirô (Japanese, 1914–1988)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1945 (Shôwa 20), December

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 20.2 x 26.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1068
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Graybill et al, The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand (Portland Art Museum cat., 2011), p. 300, #148j
DescriptionFrom a portfolio of 15 works by 9 artists, with titles of individual works on an accompanying sheet (not in MFA).
MFA prints from the portfolio (complete): 59.838, 60.38, 65.1060, 65.1067, 65.1068, 65.1083, 65.1084, 65.1085, 65.1087, 65.1088, 65.1089, 65.1091, 65.1097, 65.1098, 65.1104
Signed Jun (in block, Japanese), Sekino (in block, romanized)
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)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.