Odawara: The Sakawa River (Odawara, Sakawagawa), first (?) state, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Odawara: The Sakawa River (Odawara, Sakawagawa), first (?) state, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

「東海道五十三次之内　小田原　酒匂川」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)

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 34.6 cm (8 7/8 x 13 5/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1495

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.10

DescriptionNo. 10 in the series, first (?) state, with two figures on the near bank.

MFA impressions of the Odawara design:
First (?) state (two figures on near bank, Strange #10):
*06.1495 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17260 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.23085, 11.26104, 11.30190, 21.5012, 2009.2411.10
Second (?) state (five figures on near bank, rounded mountains, Strange #10b):
11.17302, 11.30189, 21.5022
Third (?) state (five figures on near bank, pointed mountains, Strange #10c):
*06.1419 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17301, 21.5021
Fake based on second and/or third state (Strange #10a):
*11.2139 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.26105, 21.5020

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