Akasaka: Inn with Serving Maids (Akasaka, ryosha shôfu no zu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

「東海道五十三次之内　赤坂　旅舎招婦ノ図」

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.6 x 35 cm (8 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1493

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.37

DescriptionNo. 37 in the series.

MFA impressions: *06.1493 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17271, 11.26127, 11.41836, 21.5062, 2009.2411.37

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印：（極）

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross