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Saruwaka-machi Bustling at the Opening of the Theater Season (Saruwaka-machi shibai kaomise han'ei no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 猿若町芝居顔見世繁栄之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.4 x 37 cm (10 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.877
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #62.7, pl. 742; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #5-8; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #16.7; Matsuki 1939, #222
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.877, 06.1262, 21.10020

No publisher's mark on this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross