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Okazaki, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Fan [of the Tôkaidô Road] (Suehiro gojûsan tsugi)


「末廣五十三次 三十九 岡崎」
Utagawa Kuniteru II (Kunitsuna II) (Japanese, 1830–1874)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Asakura Hori Man (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), intercalary 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 24 cm (14 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29506.40
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 3 (1977), p. 51
DescriptionComplete set of 55 prints plus title page, mounted in album: 11.29506.1-56
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniteru ga
一雄斎国輝画
Marks Censor's seal: intercalary 5 aratame [sic; no animal name]
Blockcutter's mark: Asakura Hori Man
改印:閏五改
彫師:朝倉彫万
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.