No. 40 - Chiryû, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Reisho Tôkaidô – Works

No. 40 - Chiryû, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Reisho Tôkaidô

「東海道　四十　五十三次　地鯉鮒」

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 20.5 x 33.9 cm (8 1/16 x 13 1/3 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1668

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #53.40

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1668, 21.5139

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、渡辺
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross