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Famous Places on the Tôkaidô at a Glance (Tôkaidô meisho ichiran)


東海道名所一覧
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Kadomaruya Jinsuke (Shûseikaku) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1818 (Bunka 15/Bunsei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 44.1 x 58.4 cm (17 3/8 x 23 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26671
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Salter, Japanese Popular Prints (2006), p. 64, fig. 53; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #219; Sakamoto & Toeda, Nihon no bijutsu #328 (1993), #78; Dai Hokusai ten (1993), print #161
DescriptionThe title and date appear on the wrapper in which the folded map was originally sold; see TNM, Hokusai (2005), #218.
Signed Katsushika saki no Hokusai Taito hitsu
葛飾前北斎戴斗老人筆
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.