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The Benten Shrine at Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no ike Benten hokora), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 不忍之池弁天祠」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.5 x 34 cm (8 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.785
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #58.5, pl. 468; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #11.7; Matsuki 1939, #142
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.785, 21.8917, 2009.5007.9
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in right margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross