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The Road from Nagoya to Osaka


名古屋から大阪への道
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjirô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 x 75.5 cm (14 9/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37578a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 1 (1935), pp. 104-5
DescriptionPossibly the left half of a hexaptych.
Asai suggests that the real subject is Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi entering Osaka Castle.
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga (on each sheet)
一魁斎芳年画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑五改
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.