The Willow Tree of Farewells to Guests at Nihon Embankment in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Nihon-zutsumi mikaeri no yanagi), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

The Willow Tree of Farewells to Guests at Nihon Embankment in the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara Nihon-zutsumi mikaeri no yanagi), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

「江戸名所　新吉原日本堤見帰柳」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 11th month

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.6 x 33.7 cm (8 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.939

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #84.26, pls. 893-894; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #19.24; Tanba 1965, #262; Matsuki 1939, #260

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.939 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9987, 52.1434

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Ox 11
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、渡辺、丑十一
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross