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Theaters in Nichômachi (Nichômachi shibai no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 二丁町芝居ノ図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–38 (Tenpô 3–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22 x 33.9 cm (8 11/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.909
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.24, pl. 498; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.17; Matsuki 1939, #12
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.909, 11.2135, *11.17228 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.26203, 20.71, 21.9877

Title, publisher's mark, and censor's seal in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in lower right margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross