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Watching a Nô Play (Onô haiken no zu), 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 meisho no uchi


「東海道名所之内 御能拝見之図」
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjirô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 23.8 cm (14 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44907
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kawanabe Kyôsai no nô, kyôgen ga (2013), #70; Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 100, #0747; Marks, "When the Shogun...," Andon 81 (2007), #72 (160); Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #18-149
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.18127, 11.44719, 11.44907, 2009.5009.156
Signed Ôju Seisei Kyôsai
応需惺々狂斎
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥五改
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.