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Kyoto: The Imperial Palace (Kyô, Dairi), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Kyôka Tôkaidô


「東海道 大尾 京 内裏」
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 22.8 cm (6 11/16 x 9 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.829.56
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.56
DescriptionNo. 56 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.56, *11.39923 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.45723 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9164, 50.3780
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Inscriptionsおもひ立さい先よしといそ五十路こえてみやこをけふみつの空 紅翠亭都子
Provenance1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935) to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)