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Distant View from Shôheizaka Slope (Shôheizaka no enkei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Seen from the Eastern Capital (Tôto Fujimi sanjûrokkei)


「東都富士見三十六景 昌平坂乃遠景」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1843 (Tenpô 14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.1 x 35.3 cm (9 1/2 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24950
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri 2011, #274; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #128; Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #196; Suzuki 1992, #28; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 5, Victoria and Albert Museum II (1987), pl. 59
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村
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.