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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Plum Garden at Kameido (Kameido umeyashiki), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 亀戸梅屋舗」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Jinbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), intercalary 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.4 x 33.9 cm (8 7/16 x 13 1/3 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.608
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #80.6, pls. 834-835; Suzuki 1996, pl. 834 (Aritaya edition); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.7; Matsuki 1939, #204
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.608 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9951

Both MFA impressions are the second edition, published by Yamashiroya Jinbei; the first edition was published by Aritaya Seiemon.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger intercalary 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、寅壬七
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross