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Spring: Crossing the Sumida River on the Way Home from Cherry Blossom Viewing (Haru, Hanami kaeri Sumida no watashi), from the series The Four Seasons (Shiki no uchi)


「四季之内 春 花見帰り隅田の渡し」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1820s–30s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.9 x 73 cm (14 1/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26887-9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #149; Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #372
DescriptionTriptych: 11.26887 (left), 11.26887 (center), 11.26889 (right)
Signed Eisen ga (on right sheet), Keisai Eisen ga (on center and left sheets)
英泉画  渓斎英泉画
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.