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Woman Walking Past Lantern, cut from an untitled harimaze sheet

Woman Walking Past Lantern, cut from an untitled harimaze sheet

月下辻行燈のそばを歩く女　（張交）

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 Harimaze, cut from horizontal aiban sheet; 20.7 x 7.9 cm (8 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1361a

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, horizontal aiban #12.4; Tanba 1965, #469 (uncut sheet)

DescriptionFrom a horizontal aiban sheet with five designs, four small pictures plus one panel of calligraphy; this picture is at the far left.
MFA impressions: 06.1361a, 06.2542

Signed Hiroshige
広重

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross