The Second Block of the Miroku Licensed Pleasure Quarter by the Abe River in Fuchū, no. 20 from the series Pictures of Famous Places at the Fifty-three Stations (Vertical Tōkaidō)

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/4/2004–11/7/2004
• Tōkaidō: Nineteenth-Century Japanese Landscape Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 12/13/1986–2/8/1987

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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