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                                    PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
                            
                            UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
                            Shin Yoshiwara (New Yoshiwara)
Details
                                        
                                            UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
Shin Yoshiwara (New Yoshiwara)
Woodblock print, from the series Toto meisho (Famous places in the Eastern Capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei), circa 1830-35
Horizontal oban: 10 ¼ x 14 ¾ in. (26 x 37.5 cm.)
                                        
                                    Shin Yoshiwara (New Yoshiwara)
Woodblock print, from the series Toto meisho (Famous places in the Eastern Capital), signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Kagaya Kichiemon (Kichibei), circa 1830-35
Horizontal oban: 10 ¼ x 14 ¾ in. (26 x 37.5 cm.)
Provenance
                                        
                                            Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield, Massachusetts
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), Paris
Wakai Kenzaburo (1834-1908)
                                    Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), Paris
Wakai Kenzaburo (1834-1908)
Literature
                                        
                                            The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Massachusetts: The Raymond A. Bidwell and Bertha U. Bidwell Fund, 1968), pl. 30.
                                        
                                    Exhibited
                                        
                                            “Ukiyo-e from The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA”, exh. cat. p. 80, no. 1, exhibited at the following venues:
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, 4 June-3 July, 1994
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, 16 July-21 August, 1994
Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Mie Prefecture, 1 September-4 October, 1994
“Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1980, exh. cat. pl. 46
“Exhibition of Ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Riccar Art Museum, Tokyo, 23 November-24 December, 1978, exh. cat. pl. 8
                                    Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, 4 June-3 July, 1994
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, 16 July-21 August, 1994
Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Mie Prefecture, 1 September-4 October, 1994
“Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1980, exh. cat. pl. 46
“Exhibition of Ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Riccar Art Museum, Tokyo, 23 November-24 December, 1978, exh. cat. pl. 8
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