Shinmei Shrine at Shiba: Sacred Dance at the Shrine at Dawn on New Year's Day (Shiba Shinmei, Gogû gengyô kagura no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

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Shinmei Shrine at Shiba: Sacred Dance at the Shrine at Dawn on New Year's Day (Shiba Shinmei, Gogû gengyô kagura no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

東都名所　芝神明宮　「御宮元曙神楽之図」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.2 x 34.3 cm (8 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1507

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #54.11, pl. 517; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #64.7; Matsuki 1939, #60

DescriptionMain title in upper right margin and mark of publisher Sanoya Kihei in lower right margin, cut off of this impression.

There are two editions of this series, a first edition from the 1830s and a reprint edition with censorship seals of the 1840s.

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、渡辺
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross