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Visiting the Fudô Temple in Megoro (Meguro Fudô môde), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 目黒不動詣」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–34 (Tenpô 3–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.2 x 37.5 cm (9 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39196
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #49.9, pl. 461; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.24; Tanba 1965, #28
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39196, 20.40, 21.8901

All three MFA impressions appear to be from the first edition of 1832-34 rather than the later edition of 1839-42 (Sakai pl. 474).
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.