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Zôjô-ji Temple in Shiba, from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue)


東京回顧図会 芝増上寺
Yamaguchi Gen (Japanese, 1896–1976)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1945 (Shôwa 20), December

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 20.3 x 27.3 cm (8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1097
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Graybill et al, The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand (Portland Art Museum cat., 2011), p. 299, #148i
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 (seal only)
Marks Artist's seal: Gen
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)