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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Cherry Blossoms at Night in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara yozakura no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 吉原夜桜ノ図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–38 (Tenpô 6–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.5 x 31.3 cm (8 7/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1483
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.15, pl. 779; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.15; Matsuki 1939, #40
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1483 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.24940, 21.9898, 2009.5007.10
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross