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Cherry Blossoms at Night on Naka-no-chô in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Naka-no-chô yozakura), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 新吉原仲の町夜ざくら」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.1 x 33.6 cm (8 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.919
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #70.10, pl. 656; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #68.10; Matsuki 1939, #78
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.619, *11.2255 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9784, 21.9785
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross