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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
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.55
DescriptionNo. 55 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.55, *06.1445 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2231 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.42907 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.45722 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9163
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)