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Bikuni Bridge in Snow (Bikunibashi setchû), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 びくにはし雪中」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 10th 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 Number11.36876.71
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Matsushita, Nishiki-e ga kataru edo no shoku (2009), p. 67; Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.89, pls. 305-308; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #114; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.88
DescriptionNo. 114 (winter section) on the title page for the series. This print is one of three in the series sometimes attributed to Hiroshige II because they were published in the month following the death of Hiroshige I.

MFA impressions: 11.17065, 11.36876.71, 11.42900, 11.45663, 21.10445, 21.10446
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 10
No blockcutter's mark
改印:午十
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.