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Clearing Weather at Akabane (Akabane no seiran): Actor Kawarazaki Sanshô (=Gonjûrô I) as Katabami no Saekichi, from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei no uchi)


「江戸八景ノ内 赤羽根の晴嵐 かたばみの左衛吉 河原崎三升」(初代河原崎権十郎)
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 24.2 cm (14 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.40505
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 500-3306
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 7 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:辰七改
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.