Illustration of the Opening Ceremony of the Union Horse Racing Club's Racetrack around Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park (Ueno Shinobazu kyôdô keiba kaisha kaigyôshiki no zu)

「上野不忍共同競馬會社開業式之圖」

Yôshû Chikanobu (Hashimoto Chikanobu) (Japanese, 1838–1912)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1884 (Meiji 17), October 24

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

Dimensions Vertical oban triptych; 36.9 x 74.3 cm (14 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.18168-70

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #5, photo p. 44; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #5, photo p. 15; Konishi, Nishiki-e bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 9 (1977), pp. 32-33; Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 6 (1936), pp. 14-5

DescriptionTriptych: 11.18168 (left), 11.18169 (center), 11.18170 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.18168-70, 2000.491a-c

Signed Yôshû Chikanobu hitsu
楊洲周延筆

Marks Artist's seal: toshidama

ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.