The Priest Saigyo viewing Mt. Fuji from Yoshiwara, no. 15 from the series Fifty-three Stations by Two Brushes

8 October 1929, purchased from SATO (Kyoto, Japan) 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. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 54

• Color Woodcuts by Hiroshige from the Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/23/1995–10/22/1995

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

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