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Night Rain at Azuma Wood (Azuma-no-mori yau), from the series Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinkô hakkei no uchi)


「江戸近郊八景 吾妻杜夜雨」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1837–38 (Tenpô 8–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.9 x 34.7 cm (8 5/8 x 13 2/3 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.911
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #180; Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #65; Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #52.1, pl. 575; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #6.1
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.911, 11.1916, 21.5236 (first edition)

The first edition of this series was privately commissioned for the poetry club headed by Taihaidô Nomimasu. This is the second edition, with slightly more worn blocks and fewer poems included in each design.
Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem by Suichôdô: Yanagishima/ yanagi no mino o/ karitemashi/ Azuma no mori no/ yowa no harusame
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross