Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase kihan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

「近江八景之内　矢橋帰帆」

Japanese

Edo period

about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.1 x 36.4 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/3 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.864

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #75; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.8

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.864, 06.1225, 21.6797, 21.6798

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame (in left margin, almost cut off)
改印：極

InscriptionsPoem: Maho kakete/ Yabase ni kaeru/ fune wa ima/ uchide no hama o/ ato no oikaze
真帆かけて　八橋にかへる　船はいま　うち出のはまを　あとの追風

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross