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「名所江戸百景 亀戸梅屋敷」
Plum Estate, Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
「名所江戸百景 亀戸梅屋敷」
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 11th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 33.7 x 22 cm (13 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.635
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Excursions to various parts of the city to view beautiful seasonal flowers or foliage were a popular form of recreation in Edo. For plum blossoms, the first flowers to bloom in the New Year, the most favored spot was the garden at Kameido with its famous Sleepig Dragon plum tree. Hiroshige’s striking composition, with white plum blossoms against a pink sunset sky, was later copied in oil by Van Gogh.
Catalogue Raisonné
Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.34, pls. 186-188; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #30; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.32
DescriptionNo. 030 (spring section) on the title page for the series. A copy of this print was made, as an oil painting, by Van Gogh.
MFA impressions: 06.635, 11.2223, 11.20206, 11.35818, 11.45649, 21.10421
MFA impressions: 06.635, 11.2223, 11.20206, 11.35818, 11.45649, 21.10421
Signed
Hiroshige ga
広重画
広重画
Marks
Censor's seals: (aratame, Snake 11; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、巳十一
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、巳十一
彫師：なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross