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True Depiction of the Fuji River (Fujikawa shinsha no zu), from the series The Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô)


「東海道富士河真写之図」
Shôtei Hokuju (Japanese, 1763–1824)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804–24 (Bunka 1–Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.3 x 36 cm (9 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1359
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 136; another print in the series: Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musée Guimet II (1990), pl. 141
Signed Shôtei Hokuju ga
昇亭北寿画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1906, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; March 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)