Gontazaka, between Hodogaya and Totsuka: (Actor Matsumoto Kinshô I as) Igami (no Gonta), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), here called Tôkaidô

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Gontazaka, between Hodogaya and Totsuka: (Actor Matsumoto Kinshô I as) Igami (no Gonta), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), here called Tôkaidô

「東海道　程ヶ谷　戸塚　間　権太坂　いがみ」　初代松本錦升

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kazusaya Iwazô (Iwakichi) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 24.6 cm (13 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.43288

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-05C, p. 120; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 9, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (1989), fig. 123; Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #166

DescriptionStation no. 05-06.

MFA impressions: 11.43288, 59.1147.11

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、村田、子八
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.