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Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase kihan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 矢橋帰帆」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.3 × 35.3 cm (8 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1225
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #75; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.8
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.864, 06.1225, 21.6797, 21.6798

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
InscriptionsPoem: Maho kakete/ Yabase ni kaeru/ fune wa ima/ uchide no hama o/ ato no oikaze
真帆かけて 八橋にかへる 船はいま うち出のはまを あとの追風
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross