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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Plum Garden at Kameido (Kameido ume yashiki no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 亀戸梅屋敷ノ図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–38 (Tenpô 3–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; about 25.4 × 38.1 cm (10 × 15 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39265
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.9, pl. 484; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.05; Matsuki 1939, #15
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17408, 11.39264, *11.39265 (deaccessioned in 2012), 20.75, 21.9856

Title, censor's seal, and publisher's mark in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in lower right margin, cut off of this impression)
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.