Benkei Moat outside Sakurada (Soto Sakurada Benkeibori), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

東都名所　外桜田弁慶堀

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

1856 (Ansei 3), 9th month

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.1 x 33.5 cm (8 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1484

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.10, pl. 773; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.10

DescriptionTitle, censor's seal, and publisher's mark (Sanoya Kihei) in right margin, cut off of this impression.

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross