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View of Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima no kei), from the series The Eastern Capital (Tôto)


「東都佃島之景」
Shôtei Hokuju (Japanese, 1763–1824)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804–24 (Bunka 1–Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26 x 38.7 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25140
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musée Guimet II (1990), pl. 140; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #3911; Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 129 (Yamamotoya ed.)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1157 (pub. Nishimuraya Yohachi), 11.25140 (Yamamotoya Heikichi), 50.275 (Nishimuraya Yohachi)
Signed Hokuju ga
北寿画
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.