Descending Geese at Katada (Katada rakugan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)

「あふみ八景　堅田落雁」

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

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 14.6 x 20.7 cm (5 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1618

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 237, horizontal chûban #7.3

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1618, 21.9022

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks No censor's seal

InscriptionsPoem: ... Katada no kari no ...

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross