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「東京名所従吾妻橋水雷之遠望之圖」
Famous Places in Tokyo: Distant View of a Torpedo Explosion Seen from Azuma Bridge (Tôkyô meisho Azuma-bashi yori suirai no enbô no zu)
「東京名所従吾妻橋水雷之遠望之圖」
Japanese
Meiji era
1888 (Meiji 21), printed July 1, published July 2
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 x 76.4 cm (14 5/8 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Accession Number2000.395a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Morse, ed., Reinventing Tokyo (2012), #28; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #10, photo p. 50; Swinton, Terrific Tokyo (1999), #26; Tanba, Nishiki-e ni miru Meiji tennô to Meiji jidai (1966), #149
Signed
Inoue Tankei
井上探景
井上探景
ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)