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金沢八景
Eight Views of Kanazawa, from an untitled series of Western-style landscapes
金沢八景
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804–10 (early Bunka era)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal kokonotsugiri; 13.5 x 19.0 cm (5 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16841
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Hokusai (2013), #114; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #116 (this impression); Lane 1989, list #52, pl. 80 (this impression)
Signed
Hokusai utsusu (written horizontally)
ほくさゐうつす
ほくさゐうつす
Inscriptions「見事さは姥石よりも美女石の ちらし書なる金沢八景 冨賀草三千成」
「青々と春の草色唐めきて 染附にせし瀬戸の明神 室小路春胤」
「八景をひとめにみねのまつ風も かようにうつせ宿の蓬莱 初瀬花峯」
「青々と春の草色唐めきて 染附にせし瀬戸の明神 室小路春胤」
「八景をひとめにみねのまつ風も かようにうつせ宿の蓬莱 初瀬花峯」
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.
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.