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Nihonbashi: (Actor Bandô Mitsugorô III as) a Fishmonger (Katsuo-uri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)


「東海道五十三次の内 日本橋 松魚売」 三代目坂東三津五郎
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), intercalary 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29525.4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-01, p. 115; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musee Guimet II (1990), fig. 43
DescriptionStation no. 01.

MFA impressions: *11.22514 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.29373, 11.29374, 11.29525.4, 11.43298, 59.1147.3
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Rat intercalary
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
Printer's mark: Suri Ô-Hisa
改印:福、村松、子閏
彫師:彫竹
摺師:摺大久
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.