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A Steam Engine on the Railroad at Takanawa (Takanawa tetsudô jôkisha no zenzu)

A Steam Engine on the Railroad at Takanawa (Takanawa tetsudô jôkisha no zenzu)

(Japanese, active 1860s–70s)
(Japanese)
1872 (Meiji 5)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban triptych; 35.4 x 75.2 cm (13 15/16 x 29 5/8 in.)
Credit LineJean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Accession number2000.385a-c
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)
Distant View of Ochanomizu from the Third Floor of the Yanigihara Photography Studio (Yanagihara shashinsho sankai yori Ochanomizu enkei), from the series Forty-Eight Views of Famous Places in Tokyo (Tôkyô meisho yonjû hakkei)
Distant View of Ochanomizu from the Third Floor of the Yanigihara Photography Studio (Yanagihara shashinsho sankai yori Ochanomizu enkei), from the series Forty-Eight Views of Famous Places in Tokyo (Tôkyô meisho yonjû hakkei)
Shôsai Ikkei
1871 (Meiji 4)
Tsukiji Hotel (Tsukiji hoteru kan), No. 22 from the series Thirty-Six Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô sanjûrokkei)
Tsukiji Hotel (Tsukiji hoteru kan), No. 22 from the series Thirty-Six Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô sanjûrokkei)
Shôsai Ikkei
1871 (Meiji 4), 5th month (?)
The Eleventh Month: Snow at the Top of Kudanzaka Slope (Jûichigatsu Kudanzaka jô yuki), from the series Twelve Months at Famus Places in Tokyo (Tôkyô meisho jûni kagetsu)
The Eleventh Month: Snow at the Top of Kudanzaka Slope (Jûichigatsu Kudanzaka jô yuki), from the series Twelve Months at Famus Places in Tokyo (Tôkyô meisho jûni kagetsu)
Shôsai Ikkei
1872 (Meiji 5), 10th month
No. 8 from the series A Didactic Mirror of Good and Evil (Kyôkun zen'aku kagami)
No. 8 from the series A Didactic Mirror of Good and Evil (Kyôkun zen'aku kagami)
Shôsai Ikkei
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 10th month
Ushiwaka on the Gojô Bridge
Ushiwaka on the Gojô Bridge
Ukita Ikkei
mid 19th century
Travellers Boarding a Ferry
Travellers Boarding a Ferry
Hanabusa Ikkei
dated 1832 (Tenpô 3)
Five-case inrô with herdboy/ox and tree/rock design
Five-case inrô with herdboy/ox and tree/rock design
Shirayama Shôsai
late 19th century
Box for decorative calligraphy paper (shikishi) with a heron design in maki-e
Shirayama Shôsai
second half of 19th century
Incense box (kogo) with "floral mist"maki-e design
Shirayama Shôsai
Second half of 19th century
Incense box (kogo) with maki-e decoration of chrysanthemums
Shirayama Shôsai
20th century
Box in the shape of poem cards
Shirayama Shôsai
second half of the 19th century
Group shot: 50.21, 11.21692
Apprentice Courtesan (Shinzô) (right), Female Peddler (Onna akindo) (left), from the book Comparisons of the Customs of Women (Onna fûzoku shinasadame)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
about 1795 (Kansei 7)