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Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryôgoku Bridge in Edo: A Great Display of Fireworks (Edo Ryôgoku-bashi yûsuzumi ôhanabi no zu)


「江戸両国橋夕涼大花火之図」
Utagawa Kunitora (Japanese, active early 19th century)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1820s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38 x 76.5 cm (14 15/16 x 30 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36852a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Edo Tokyo Museum, Hakuran toshi Edo Tôkyô (1993), #1-20
Signed Kunitora ga (on each sheet)
国虎画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.