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Suidô Bridge and Surugadai (Suidôbashi Surugadai), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 水道橋駿河台」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), intercalary 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 24.5 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36876.34
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.56, pls. 232, 233; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #48; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.55
DescriptionNo. 048 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16716, 11.36876.34, 21.9474
夏の部。本郷の富士見坂辺りから三崎町、九段方面を望み、神田川と水道橋、遥かに富士山を描く。端午の節句の際、武家が飾る吹流しや鍾馗の絵幟、町家が飾る鯉幟がたなびく。ここでも、手前に対象物を大きく配して遠景を望む手法を用いている。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake intercalary 5
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳壬五
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.