Azuma Bridge and Komagata Hall, no. 55 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo

8 April 1919, purchased from Ito (Chicago, IL) by 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]

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ando Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1982. p. 30, cat. no. 55
• Marks, Andreas. "Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition." Tuttle Publishing, 2024. pp. 144-145, no. 62
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 130

• Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
• Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Van Vleck Collection, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/21/2001–6/17/2001
• States and Copies: Variables in the History of Printmaking: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1/25/1992–3/1/1992
• Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/18/1982–5/23/1982

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

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