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Scattered Pines, Tone River (Tonegawa Barabara-matsu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 利根川ばらばら松」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 8th 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 Number11.36876.47
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.77, pls. 279-282; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #71; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.76
DescriptionNo. 071 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.1090 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.26351, 11.35839, 11.36876.47, 11.45647, 21.9473

夏の部。利根川は関東一の名流で坂東太郎の異名を持つ。ばらばら松は広重の『絵本江戸土産』にも登場するが、場所は諸説ある。川魚を獲る投網と、その勢いに驚くかのように飛ぶ白鷺の姿を描く。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
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.