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Double Bridge at the Imperial Palace (Nijûbashi), from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue); reprinted from the series New 100 Scenes of Tokyo (Shin Tôkyô hyakkei)


東京回顧図絵 (新東京百景) 二重橋
Onchi Kôshirô (Japanese, 1891–1955)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1945 (Shôwa 20), December reprint of design from 1929 (Shôwa 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 20.2 x 28 cm (7 15/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1088
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Graybill et al, The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand (Portland Art Museum cat., 2011), p. 295, #148a; Swinton, Terrific Tokyo (1999), #40; Onchi/ Prints of Onchi Koshiro (1975), #132 (original 1929 design)
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 Unsigned
無款
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)