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Fuchû: Nichô-machi, cut from sheet 6 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)


東海道五十三次図会 六 「府中 二丁町」 (張交)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 18.2 x 7.1 cm (7 3/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.822
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #90-7 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #45 (series of 15 sheets, not listed individually)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of four pictures showing Ejiri (R), Fuchû (TC), Mariko (BL), and Okabe (TL) stations.

MFA impressions: 06.822 (Fuchû), 21.8680 (Fuchû), 21.8681 (Mariko), 21.8708 (Ejiri), 21.8710 (Okabe)
Signed Hiroshige
広重
Provenance1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935) to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)