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Kanbara: Night Snow (Kanbara, yoru no yuki), second state, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô
「東海道五十三次之内 蒲原 夜之雪」
Japanese, Edo period, about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige I, Japanese, 1797–1858
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô), Japanese
Horizontal ôban
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Signed: Hiroshige gaClassification: Prints
Type, sub-type: Ukiyo-e print
Catalogue: Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.16Object is currently not on viewNo. 16 in the series, second state (sky dark at horizon, no lines in knees of figure at right).
MFA impressions:
First state: 11.26110, 11.38911, 21.5031
Second state: 06.1183, 11.17295, 11.25156, 11.30429, 21.5032, 42.566 Museum of Fine Arts, BostonWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection, 1911
Accession number: 11.17295Provenance/Ownership History: Prior to 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)
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