Crowds Going to the Kaomise Kabuki Performances in Saruwakacho, from the series Famous Places in Edo

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]

• Newland, Amy Reigle ed. "The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints." Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2006. p. 31, no. 12

• Print Tsunami: Japonisme and Paris: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/3/2015–8/23/2015
• Kabuki: The Drama of Japanese Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/19/2003–6/22/2003
• Splendors of Edo: Japanese Prints, 1750-1930: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/7/1999–10/10/1999

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

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