Kuwana: Shichiri Crossing (Kuwana, Shichiri watashiguchi), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Kuwana: Shichiri Crossing (Kuwana, Shichiri watashiguchi), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

「東海道五十三次之内　桑名　七里渡口」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.2 x 33.2 cm (8 3/8 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.500

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.43

DescriptionNo. 43 in the series.

MFA impressions: *06.500 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17428 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.23100, 11.30197, 11.30378, 11.41816, 11.41837, 21.5069, 2009.2411.43

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印：（極）

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross