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Dôkan Hill (Dôkan-yama), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 道鑑山」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.1 x 37.2 cm (9 7/8 x 14 2/3 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1217
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #60-?
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1217, 21.9771

From a series in which several other designs are reprints, with altered titles, from the series originally called Edo meisho no uchi, published around 1832-34.
Signed Unsigned
無款
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu, Ox 6
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松、丑六
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)