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The Tsukiji Dazaifu Tenmangû Shrine (Tsukiji Dazaifu Tenmangû no zu)


「築地大宰府天満宮之図」
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Mikawaya Den'emon
Japanese
Edo period
about 1818–23 (Bunsei 1–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.2 x 26 cm (15 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17839-40
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), triptych list #31 and cat. no. 463; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #s 2460-2 (complete triptych)
DescriptionDiptych (two right sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.17839 (left), 11.17840 (right)
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu (on each sheet)
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.