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Striped Sea Bream, Rock-trout, and Nandina, from an untitled series known as Large Fish (supplemental group)


魚尽くし 縞鯛、 あいなめ、 南天
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; 24.5 × 36.5 cm (9 5/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.949
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1998), #s 104, 105; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 243, horizontal ôban #100.07
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.949, 06.2571, 11.17173, 11.17174

No publisher's mark on this impression.

The first edition of this series was privately printed in the form of a kyôka poetry album in the orihon format, with ten illustrated sheets and four sheets of text only. Soon afterward, the blocks were reused for commercial prints, with the publisher's mark and censor's kiwame seal added (and in a few cases, different poems). One additional design, the trout, was included in the commercial series; and another nine designs were added still later by a different publisher. For a full reproduction and detailed discussion of the first edition, see Mann 2021, pp. 290-311.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
改印:なし
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem
ProvenanceBy 1906, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; March 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)