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Characters from Plays as Merchants and Customers, from the series Flourishing Business in Balladtown (Jôruri-machi hanka no zu)


「浄るり町繁栄の図」 水菓子屋他
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.7 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26366
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Mus., Hiroshige no giga (2023), #96; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #16; Motegi et al, Musical Instruments (Ôta Memorial Museum, 2005), #45; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #31.7
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.26366, 11.39599
Signed Hiroshige gihitsu
広重戯筆
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、村田、子八
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: 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.