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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Mitsuke: Ferry on the Tenryû River (Mitsuke, Tenryûgawa funawatashi), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Kyôka Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次 見附 天竜川船渡し」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; about 19.1 × 25.4 cm (7 1/2 × 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39949
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.29
DescriptionNo. 29 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.29, *06.1437 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.39949 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.45698 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9137, RES.53.167
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptionsむかしたり初てこゝにゆびさして見附の宿のふじのいたゞき 朝霞庵於喜金
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.