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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Totsuka: Motomachi Fork (Totsuka, Motomachi betsudô), first version, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 戸塚 元町別道」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.8 x 37.2 cm (10 3/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1339
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.06
DescriptionNo. 06 in the series, first version; co-published by Hôeidô and Senkakudô.
MFA impressions:
First version, with man dismounting from horse: *06.1339 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.2166, 11.23084, 11.38931, 11.38932, 11.41824, 21.5006, 2009.2411.6
Second version, with man mounting horse: 11.21128, 21.5007, 21.5008
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross