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The Octopus Pine at Nakanoshima (Nakanoshima Tako no matsu), from the series One Hundred Views of Osaka (Naniwa hyakkei no uchi)


「浪花百系の内 中の島蛸の松」
Hasegawa Sadanobu I (Japanese, 1809–1879)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
about 1869–70 (Meiji 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal koban (half aiban); 16.1 x 23.5 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36432
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 127; Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #21-11; Keyes 1973, cat. #295-4 (no photo)
Signed Sadanobu hitsu
貞信筆
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.