Kanda Myôjin Shrine (Kanda Myôjin), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

「江戸名所　神田明神」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1857 (Ansei 4), 9th month

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.9 x 33.8 cm (8 5/8 x 13 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1502

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #88.4, pl. 920; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #17.4

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.769 (deaccessioned in 2019), 06.1502

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 9
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、巳九
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross