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New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ôji (Ôji Shôzoku enoki Ômisoka no kitsunebi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 33.4 x 21.9 cm (13 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1259
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.22, pls. 162-164; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #118; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.25
DescriptionNo. 118 (winter section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 06.1259, 11.2212, 11.36876.75, 11.45639, 21.9516, 21.9517, 46.1403
Meiji reproduction: RES.52.90
Signed HIroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Snake 9; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳九
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross