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Moto Yoshiwara, between Hara and Yoshiwara: (Actor Bandô Mitsugorô III as) a Vendor of White Sake (Shirozake-uri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), here called Tôkaidô


「東海道 原 吉原 間 元よしはら 白酒売」 三代目坂東三津五郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kazusaya Iwazô (Iwakichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.4 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.43295
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-14C, p. 128
DescriptionStation no. 14-15.

MFA impressions: 11.43295, 59.1147.33
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Rat 10
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、子十
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.