Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Surugadai, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 するがたひ」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830–35 (Tenpô 1–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26 x 38 cm (10 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16010
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #176; Suzuki 1992, #15
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.