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Niijuku Ferry (Niijuku no watashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 にい宿のわたし」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 2nd 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 Number11.36876.62
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.85, pls. 297, 298; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #93; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.84
DescriptionNo. 093 (fall section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16690, 11.36876.62, 11.45634
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 2
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳二
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.