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Night Rain on Emon Hill (Emonzaka no yau), No. 1 from an untitled series of Eight Views of Edo


江戸八景 「ゑもん坂の夜雨 一」
Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697?–1756)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Horizontal hosoban; 15.8 x 29.1 cm (6 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19139
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Unsigned
無款
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.