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Totsuka: Motomachi Fork (Totsuka, Motomachi betsudô), first version, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 戸塚 元町別道」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 38 cm (9 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38931
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.06
DescriptionNo. 06 in the series, first version; co-published by Hôeidô and Senkakudô.
MFA impressions:
First version, with man dismounting from horse: *06.1339 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2166 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.23084, 11.38931, 11.38932, 11.41824, 21.5006, 2009.2411.6
Second version, with man mounting horse: 11.21128, 21.5007, 21.5008
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
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.