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Crowds Visiting the Shrine of Benzaiten at Enoshima in Sagami Province on the Occasion of the Special Viewing (Sôshû Enoshima Benzaiten kaichô sankei gunshû no zu)


「相州江之島弁財天開帳参詣群集之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sumiyoshiya Masagorô
Japanese
Edo period
1851 (Kaei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.3 x 75.2 cm (14 5/16 x 29 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.27094-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), pp. 136-7; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #113; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 248, ôban triptych #55
DescriptionTriptych: 11.27094 (right), 11.27095 (center), 11.27096 (left)
Signed Hiroshige ga (on right and center sheets), Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga (on left sheet)
広重画 一立斎広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、村田
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: 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.