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Eight Views of Japan, the Sea at Naruto (Yamato hakkei, Naruto no umi): Nanahito of the Sugata-Ebiya, from the series Courtesans Compared to Eight Views (Keisei mitate hakkei)


「傾城見立八景 和八景 鳴門ノ海 姿海老屋内 七人」
Utagawa Kuniyasu (Japanese, 1794–1832)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about late 1820s (late Bunsei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 x 24.7 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37176
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Another print in the series: Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 3, British Museum III (1987), pl. 38
Signed Ippôsai Kuniyasu ga
一鳳斎国安画
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.