Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekishô), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

「近江八景之内　瀬田夕照」

Japanese

Edo period

about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.5 × 34.1 cm (8 7/8 × 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1496

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #70; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.5

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1496, 11.17242, 21.6801, 21.6802

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

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

InscriptionsPoem: Tsuyu shigure/ moru yama tôku/ sugikitsutsu/ yûhi no wataru/ Seta no nagahashi
露しくれ　守やまとおく　過木つゝ　夕日のわたる　勢多の長はし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross