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「浮絵和国景跡 新吉原中ノ町之図」
Naka-no-chô in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Naka-no-chô no zu), from the series Scenes of Japan in Perspective Pictures (Uki-e Wakoku keiseki)
「浮絵和国景跡 新吉原中ノ町之図」
Japanese
Edo period
early 1770s (late Meiwa–early An'ei era)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 26.3 x 38.3 cm (10 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14711
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #46 (night); Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 7 (1980), #s 81 (day) and 82 (night); Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #147 (described but not illustrated)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14711 (day), 11.14734 (night, with different color blocks)
Signed
Utagawa Toyoharu ga
歌川豊春画
歌川豊春画
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.
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.