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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Cherry Trees in Rain on the Sumida River Embankment (Sumida zutsumi uchû no sakura), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 隅田堤雨中之桜」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1850s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 19.8 x 32.4 cm (7 13/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.602
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #83.6, pl. 856; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #606; Tanba 1965, #196; Matsuki 1939, #111; first edition: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.4, pl. 529 [sic; =530]
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.602 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9790, 21.9791, 21.9792, 21.9793, 21.9794, 21.9795, 54.402

From a reprint edition, with altered title, of a series originally called Edo meisho no uchi, published around 1832-34.
Censor's seal and publisher's mark in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross