No. 33 - Futakawa: Post House at Monkey Plain, Famous Oak-leaf Dumplings (Saru-ga-baba tateba, meibutsu kashiwa mochi), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi) – Works

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

No. 33 - Futakawa: Post House at Monkey Plain, Famous Oak-leaf Dumplings (Saru-ga-baba tateba, meibutsu kashiwa mochi), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi)

「東海道　三十三　五十三次之内　二川　猿が馬場立ば　名物柏もち」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1850–51 (Kaei 3–4)

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

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 22.7 x 16.5 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1444

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #23.33

DescriptionStation no. 34 in the usual order. Since Shimada (no. 24) and Kanaya (no. 25) are combined in one design in this series, all numbers from 25 on are one less than the usual number for that station.

MFA impressions: *06.1444 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.1914 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.26183, 2009.5010.32, 2019.1974.33

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、村田
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross