View of Lake Biwa and the Town of Otsu from the Kannon Hall at the Miidera in Otsu, no. 54 from the series Pictures of the Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations (Vertical Tokaido)

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 (Cambridge, MA); 1980, passed through inheritance to John’s wife, Abigail P. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1984, bequeathed to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

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

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