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Yatsuhashi at Chiryû (Chiryû Yatsuhashi), 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 池鯉鮒 八ツ橋」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Matsushima Masakichi (Hori Masa) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 23.8 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44989
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kawada et al., eds., Ise Monogatari (2024), p. 159; Marks, "When the Shogun...," Andon 81 (2007), #39A (91); Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #18-91
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15402, 11.44779, 11.44989, 2009.5009.92
Signed Ôju Nanajûhassai Toyokuni hitsu, in toshidama cartouche
応需七十八歳豊国筆(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Matsushima Hori Masa
改印:亥四改
彫師:松島彫政
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.