Shimotsuke Province: Mount Nikkô, Urami Waterfall (Shimotsuke, Nikkôsan, Urami no taki), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Shimotsuke Province: Mount Nikkô, Urami Waterfall (Shimotsuke, Nikkôsan, Urami no taki), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

「六十余州名所図絵　下野　日洸山　裏見ノ滝」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 8th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.3 x 22.9 cm (13 1/2 x 9 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.859

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #27; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.35

DescriptionNo. 27 (Tôsandô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.27 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.859 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17124, 11.26231, *11.36910 (deaccessioned in 2012)

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censors' seals: (Kinugasa, Murata, Ox 8)
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印：衣笠、村田、丑八
彫師：彫竹

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross