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Board Game of Famous Places on the Tôkaidô Road, Fifty-three Stations in One View (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi meisho ichiran sugoroku)


「東海道五十三次名所一覧双六」
Utagawa Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1873)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Game board: 74 x 73.4 cm (29 1/8 x 28 7/8 in.)
Wrapper: 25.4 x 20.1 cm (10 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39538.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionGame board: 11.39538.1
Original wrapper in which folded game board was sold: 11.39538.2
Signed Gountei Sadahide ga (on game), Gountei Sadahide gazu (on wrapper)
五雲亭貞秀画
Marks Censor's seal: Dog 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:戌八改
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.