Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

「東都名所　浅草金龍山年ノ市」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1856 (Ansei 3), 9th month

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21 x 33.9 cm (8 1/4 x 13 1/3 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.784

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.1, pls. 761-762; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.3; Tanba 1965, #230; Matsuki 1939, #53

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.784 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9907

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Dragon 9; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、辰九
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross