Three Vignettes of Edo (Matsuchi Hill and Sanya Canal, Plums at Umeyashiki, and Pleasure Boat at Ryogoku), from the series Harimaze of Pictures of 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]

• Asana, Shugo. "Hirosige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo." Tokyo: Shogakukan Inc., 2007
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Hiroshige ten: Seitan 200-shunen kinen (200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition)." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art; Japan: Bun You Associates, 1996. no. 235

• 200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition (Hiroshige ten: seiten 200-shunen kinen): Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/29/1996–12/8/1996

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

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