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Nissaka in Tôtômi Province: The Bell of Eternity (Muken no kane) at Sayo no Nakayama (Sayo no Nakayama Muken no kane): Hayakawa Taitô, from the series Calligraphy and Pictures for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Shoga gojûsan eki)


「書画五拾三駅 遠江 日坂 小夜中山 無間鐘」「早川帯力」
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1872 (Meiji 5), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 23.7 cm (14 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41453
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionNo. 26 in the series.
Signed Yoshitora ga; unread signature (above left)
芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Water Monkey (Jinshin, mizunoe saru) 10
No blockcutter's mark
改印:壬申十
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.