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The Embankment at Mimeguri


三囲の土手
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1799 (Kansei 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.5 x 51.4 cm (15 3/16 x 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22548-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #328; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 20.1.1-3 (complete triptych)
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.22548 (left), 11.22549 (right)
Signed Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印: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.