Sagami Province: Enoshima, The Entrance to the Caves (Sagami, Enoshima, Iwaya no kuchi), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Sagami Province: Enoshima, The Entrance to the Caves (Sagami, Enoshima, Iwaya no kuchi), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

「六十余州名所図絵　相模　江ノ島　岩屋ノ口」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; about 38.1 × 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.36933

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #15; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.29

DescriptionNo. 15 (Tôkaidô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.15 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.16988, 11.26223, *11.36933 (deaccessioned in 2012), RES.53.180

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Ox 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、村田、丑八
彫師：なし

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.