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DEACCESSIONED June 20, 2019

Cherry-blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill (Asukayama hanami no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 飛鳥山花見之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirō (Shōrindō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ōban; 21.7 x 34.2 cm (8 9/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1499
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fūkei (1996), list #61.6, pls. 718, 719; Ukiyo-e shūka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ōban #15.02
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1373, *06.1499 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.1672 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.2583 (deaccessioned in 2019)

Similar, but not identical to, 21.10032, 54.418; possibly one design was a replacement for the other?
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross