Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki yau), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

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Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki yau), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

「近江八景之内　唐崎夜雨」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 × 37.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.885

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #71; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.4

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.885, *11.2020 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.2094, 11.2129, 21.6809, 21.6810, 34.289, 42.567, 53.2736

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

InscriptionsPoem: Yo no ame ni/ oto o yuzurite/ yûkaze o/ yoso ni na tatsuru/ Karasaki no matsu
夜の雨に　音をゆつりて　夕風を　よそになたつる　から崎のまつ

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross