Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase kihan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)

「近江八景　八橋帰帆」

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; 14.7 x 20.6 cm (5 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1597

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 237, horizontal chûban #7.8

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.642, 06.1597 (both with border cut off), 21.9021 (intact)

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks No censor's seal

InscriptionsPoem

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross