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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Center sheet of: Snow View (Yuki no nagame), from the series Fashionable Genji (Fûryû Genji)


風流源氏 雪の眺め
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25.2 cm (14 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1264
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G550-02, pl. 234; Mueller et al., Competition and Collaboration (2007), #156; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 248, ôban triptych #94.7; Tanba 1965, #113
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych co-designed with Kunisada (Toyokuni III).

MFA impressions: *06.1264 (center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), 11.39586a-c (complete triptych), 21.5917 (center sheet only), 47.25-7 (complete triptych), 2016.924a-c
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Ox 12
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:改、丑十二
彫師:彫竹
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross