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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Akasaka, 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 赤坂」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ezakiya Tatsuzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1841–44 (Tenpô 12–Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal aiban; 19.6 x 31.5 cm (7 11/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1415
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 242, horizontal aiban #5.37
DescriptionNo. 37 in the series.

MFA impressions:
No censor's seal, publisher's mark in black: *06.887 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.1415 (deaccessioned in 2019), 06.1826
With censor's seal, publisher's mark in red: 11.40019, 21.9349, 21.9350
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross