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Kyoto: Playing Kickball at the Palace (Kyô, ôuchi kemari no yûran), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô no uchi


「東海道之内 京 大内蹴鞠之遊覧」
Utagawa Yoshimori (Japanese, 1830–1884)
Publisher: Ôtaya Takichi (Hori Takichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 x 25 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44893
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, "When the Shogun...," Andon 81 (2007), #60 (136); Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #18-145; Utagawa ha (Kobijutsu special issue 7, 1986), #323; Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 2 (1977), p. 136
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16247, 11.44893, 11.44939, 2009.5009.136
Signed Yoshimori ga
芳盛画
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 6 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥六改
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.