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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

The Spiral Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku rakan Sazaidô), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 五百羅漢さゞゐ堂」
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; 22.7 x 34.8 cm (8 15/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.940
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.13, pls. 488-489; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.8; Matsuki 1939, #25
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.940 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2206 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17245 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.39271, 20.74, 21.9869, 21.9870

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