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Kuwana: Tomita Post Station (Kuwana, Tomita tateba no zu), 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 桑名 富田立場之図」
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; 17 x 22.7 cm (6 11/16 x 8 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.829.43
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.43
DescriptionNo. 43 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.43, *11.39919 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.45710 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9151, RES.53.175
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptions乗り合いのちいが雀のはなしにはやき蛤も舌をかくせり 楳の門鬼丸
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross.