Autumn Moon at Takanawa (Takanawa no aki no tsuki), from the series Eight Dates with Geisha/Eight Views on Fans (Ôgi hakkei)
Keisai Eisen
(Japanese, 1790–1848)
Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendô)
(Japanese)
late 1820s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.8 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.17892
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Collections
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.
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.
![No. 20, Kutsukake Station: Rain on the Plain of Hiratsuka (Kutsukake no eki, Hiratsuka hara uchû no kei), from the series The [Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaidô Road](/internal/media/dispatcher/1060468/thumbnail)
Opening Night in the Theater District for Two Theaters of Edo (Edo ryôza Shibai-machi kaomise no zu)
Keisai Eisen
1841 (Tenpô 12)
Keisai Eisen
Keisai Eisen
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)
Keisai Eisen
Keisai Eisen