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Night View of Matsuchiyama and the San'ya Canal (Matsuchiyama San'yabori yakei), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 真乳山山谷堀夜景(まつちやま さんやぼり やけい)」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 24.5 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36876.24
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.99, pls. 329, 330; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #34; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.98
DescriptionNo. 034 (spring section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16684, 11.36876.24, 11.42901, 21.9455
春の部。向島(むこうじま)の土手から隅田川越しに真乳山と山谷堀を見る。本図手前には提灯を持つ人物に導かれて隅田堤を歩く芸妓が描かれる。真乳山の頂上にあった聖天堂(しょうてんどう)は近くの花柳界の信者も多かった。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳八
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: 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.