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Akasaka, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Kyôka Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次 赤坂」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 16.6 x 22.6 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.829.37
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.37
DescriptionNo. 37 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.37, *11.39956 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.41309 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9145, RES.53.172
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptions双六とともにふり出す髭奴名を赤坂の宿にとゞめて 鳴門静丸
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross.