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Descending Geese at Hasuike (Hasuike no rakugan), from the series Ten Views of Cherry Trees in the Eastern Capital (Tôto sakuragi jikkei)


「東都桜木十景 蓮池の落雁」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Other artist: Artist unidentified, Japanese
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 25 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15425
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionArtist of inset picture not yet identified; presumably a pupil of Toyokuni II.
Signed Gosotei Toyokuni ga (main image); Kuni ... ga (inset)
後素亭豊国画、国?画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.