No. 23, Myôken Temple at Yanagishima (Yanagishima Myôken), from the series Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei)

「江戸名所四十八景　廿三　柳し満妙見」

Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 12th month
Artist Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869), Publisher Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)

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Catalogue Raisonné

Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #16-23

Dimensions

Vertical chûban; 25.1 x 18.3 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)

Accession Number

11.20525

Medium or Technique

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Not On View

Collections

Asia, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Signed

Hiroshige ga
広重画

Markings

Censor's seal: Monkey 12 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：申十二改
彫師：なし

Provenance

By 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.

Credit Line

William Sturgis Bigelow Collection