Procession on the Tôkaidô Road, with a Chart of the Highway from Osaka to Edo [Used as a title page for an album of the later series Fifty-three Stations of the Fan [of the Tôkaidô Road] (Suehiro gojûsan tsugi)]

大阪から江戸まで街道の図、大名行列　（末廣五十三次の画帖と一緒に）

Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Izutsuya Shôkichi, Japanese
Blockcutter: Katada Chôjirô (Hori Chô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 24 cm (14 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.29506.1

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionUsed as a title page for the series Fifty-three Stations of the Fan [of the Tôkaidô Road] (Suehiro gojûsan tsugi), although in fact this print was published two years earlier. Complete set of 55 prints plus title page, mounted in album: 11.29506.1-56

Signed Ichiôsai Kunichika ga
一鴬斎国周画

Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Katada Hori Chô
改印：亥四改
彫師：片田彫長

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.