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The Song Evening Mist at Asama Peak (Yûkasumi Asamagatake), on Scrap-paper Fabric with an Itchû-bushi Libretto (Itchû-bushi no hogo moyô), from the series A Modern Pine Needle Collection (Tôsei matsu no ha)

(Japanese, 1790–1848)
late 1820s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.1 cm (14 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.17878
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
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.