No. 40 - Chiryû, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Aritaya Tôkaidô – Works

No. 40 - Chiryû, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Aritaya Tôkaidô

「東海道　四十　五十三次之内　池鯉鮒」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

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

Dimensions Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 9.9 x 15.5 cm (3 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1582

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 233, horizontal yotsugiri #31.40

DescriptionFrom a set of 56 small designs, printed four to a sheet on 14 horizontal ôban sheets.

MFA impressions: 06.1582, 21.9205

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