The Asakusa River, Kinryûzan Temple, and Azuma Bridge (Asakusagawa Kinryûzan Azumabashi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho no uchi)

「東都名所　浅草川　金龍山　吾妻橋」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal aiban; 18.4 x 31.2 cm (7 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.521

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #97.1, pl. 957; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, horizontal aiban #8.1

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross