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Pilgrims on Mount Fuji (Fujisan shonin sankei no zu)


「富士山諸人参詣之図」
Utagawa Kunitsuru (Japanese, 1807–78)
Publisher: Hanabusaya Bunzô
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.8 x 77.3 cm (14 1/2 x 30 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36854a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kurahashi, Edo kabuki no jôhô bunkashi (2021), p. 302, fig. 12; Minami Kazuo, Ishin zen'ya no Edo shomin (1980), pp. 192-3; Miyao, Nihon no giga (1967), p. 180
DescriptionThe hats and costumes of the pilgrims are inscribed with the names of commodities whose prices are going up or down.
Signed Kunitsuru ga (on right and center sheets), Ichiyû (?) Kunitsuru ga (on left sheet)
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 6 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Yokokawa Hori Take (on right and left sheets)
改印:丑六改
彫師:横川彫竹
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.