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十二階
Twelve Storied Tower, Tokyo, 1895
十二階
Tobari Kogan (Japanese, 1882–1927)
Japanese
Taishô era
1910s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; color on paper
Dimensions
28.5 x 24.4 cm (11 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number64.43
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Morse, ed., Reinventing Tokyo (2012), #39; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga II (1999), #162
DescriptionThe name of an organization founded by Kogan in the 1910s, "Kogan Shin Azuma nishiki-e kai," is embossed in the lower margin.
Signed
Kogan Shin Azuma nishiki-e kai (embossed in lower margin); Kogan Tobari (in romanization, in pencil in lower right margin; may not be hand of artist)
孤雁新東錦絵会
孤雁新東錦絵会
Provenance1964, sold by Elsa V. Merlo to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 12, 1964)