Crowd at the Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi gunshû), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Crowd at the Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi gunshû), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

「東都名所　浅草金龍山年之市群集」

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; 22.3 x 34.5 cm (8 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1326

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.1, pl. 478; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.1; Tanba 1965, #191; Matsuki 1939, #26

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1326 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.24924, 11.39275, 11.39276, 20.77, 21.9866

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