The Onoshi Restaurant by Yanagi Bridge in the Ryogoku District, from the series Famous Restaurants in Edo

By 1925, purchased 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]

• Thomsen, Hans Bjarne. "The Other Hiroshige: Connoisseur of the Good Life." Impressions, The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society America (24 December 2002): 48-71. pp. 48-71, no. 18
• Thomsen, Hans Bjarne. "Food and Art: Hiroshige's Restaurant Prints in the Elvehjem." Bulletin/Biennial Report 1999-2001. Elvehjem Museum of Art (2001): 27-40. pp. 27-40
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Biennial Report 1999-2001." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2002. p. 34, no. 10

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