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No. 17, Yui: The Frightful Satta Pass (Yui, Satta tôge oya shirazu), 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 十七 由井 薩多峠親知らず」
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; 37.4 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1202
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #24.17
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1202, 11.16776, 11.30267, 21.5263, 46.1410
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)