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Okawa Tomoemon, from the series Five Heroic Men (Eiyû gonin otoko)


「英雄五人傑 大川巴右エ門」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Iseya Ichiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21216
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Nat. Mus. of J. Hist., Nishiki-e wa ika ni tsukurareta ka (2009), #103; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #10.1
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Kinugasa
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜、衣笠
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: 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.