No. 27, Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road (Kakegawa, Akiba michi shijûhachi segoe), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tôkaidô

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No. 27, Kakegawa: Fording the Forty-eight Rapids on the Akiba Road (Kakegawa, Akiba michi shijûhachi segoe), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tôkaidô

｢五十三次名所図会　二十七　懸川　秋葉道四十八瀬越｣

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 25.4 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1186

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #24.27

DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1186, 11.16912, 11.30277

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、卯七
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)