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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Kusatsu, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 草津」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1841–44 (Tenpô 12–Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal aiban; 19.3 x 31.4 cm (7 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1401
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 242, horizontal aiban #5.53
DescriptionNo. 53 in the series.

MFA impressions:
Publisher's mark in black, no censor's seal: 06.1842
No publisher's mark, no censor's seal: *06.1401 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.39981, 21.9370
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
版元:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross