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Kanagawa Station: The Tomb of Urashima (Kanagawa no eki, Urashima-zuka), from the series Fifty-three Pairings for the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsui)

about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban; 35.2 × 23.1 cm (13 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.22420
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ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptions浦島づか  雄略天皇の御時、丹後国に浦島子というあり ある日独小舟に乗りて海上に釣りし時霊亀顕れ彼の亀に乗り龍の都へ至りぬ 日を送りて家に帰らんと思い此事を神女に告けけれは神女別れを恋慕ふといへとも止らづ 終に別れとなりかたみに玉匣をもらひて喜び古郷へ帰りしに数百歳を経て七とせの孫に逢ひしとかや
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.
Ishiyama, from an untitled series of Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
about 1825 (Bunsei 8)
Sumô Wrestler Onogawa Saisuke of Kurume
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1857 (Ansei 4), 4th month
Actor Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I as Agemaki's Sukeroku
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1862 (Bunkyû 2), 2nd month
Actor Onoe Kikugorô IV as Yasaku's Wife (Nyôbô) Okayo
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1858 (Ansei 5), 5th month
Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Shimobe Shikazô
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 3rd month
Actor Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I as Nagoya Sanza
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 3rd month
Beauty in Mountain Landscape
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
1856 (Ansei 3), 1st month