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The Tanabata Festival in the Great City of Edo (Ô-Edo shichû Tanabata matsuri), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjûrokkei)


「不二三十六景 大江戸市中七夕祭」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 17.8 × 24.8 cm (7 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39245
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 235, horizontal chûban #31.03
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.26283, 11.39245, 21.9557
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、渡辺
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.