Kyoto: The Great Bridge at Sanjô (Kyô, Sanjô Ôhashi 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　京　三条大橋ノ図」

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; 16.5 x 22.5 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.829.55

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPostcards – Envelopes

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.55

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Inscriptions鳴神の音にきこえし大橋は雲の上ふむこゝちこそすれ　鶴の屋松門

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