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Benkei Moat outside Sakurada (Soto Sakurada Benkeibori), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 外桜田弁慶堀」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Jinbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), intercalary 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.8 x 35 cm (9 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1655
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #80.14, pl. 843; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.18.2
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Aritaya edition: 21.9924, 21.9925, RES.49.172
Yamadaya edition: 06.1655
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger intercalary 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、寅壬七
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross