Dawn over Nihon Embankment at Emonzaka in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Nihon-zutsumi Emonzaka akebono), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Dawn over Nihon Embankment at Emonzaka in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Nihon-zutsumi Emonzaka akebono), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

「東都名所　新吉原日本堤衣紋坂曙」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22 x 34.5 cm (8 11/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.522

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #68.6, pl. 616; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #62.7; Matsuki 1939, #67

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.522 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9833, RES.37.7

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks No censor's seal

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross