Fragment of: The Kayabachô Restaurant: (Actor Arashi Rikan III as) Kuzunoha, from the series Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto kômei kaiseki zukushi)

Advanced Search

LICENSE IMAGE

ORDER PRINT

DOWNLOAD

Fragment of: The Kayabachô Restaurant: (Actor Arashi Rikan III as) Kuzunoha, from the series Famous Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto kômei kaiseki zukushi)

「東都高名会席尽　葛の葉　茅場丁」三代目嵐璃寛　（断簡）

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 1st month

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

Dimensions Fragment cut from vertical ôban sheet; 16.8 × 6 cm (6 5/8 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.821

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #8.18, pl. 54; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #48.22; Tanba 1965, #505

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.821 (TL image only), 11.30501 (intact sheet)

Signed Hiroshige
広重

Marks Artist's seal: Hiro

Provenance1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935) to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)