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Benten Shrine in Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no ike Benten no yashiro), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 不忍の池弁天の社」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.6 x 34.3 cm (8 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1665
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #15.08
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1665, *11.2138 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2285 (deaccessioned in 2019)

No publisher's mark on this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross