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「双筆五十三次 石薬師 高富士遠景」 目録：「弁慶」初代市川男女蔵ヵ
Ishiyakushi: Distant View of Takatomizan (Takatomizan enkei); Actor Ichikawa Omezô I (?) as Benkei, from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)
「双筆五十三次 石薬師 高富士遠景」 目録：「弁慶」初代市川男女蔵ヵ
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 8th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped
Dimensions
Vertical ôban, creped; 21.9 x 15.3 cm (8 5/8 x 6 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1834
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T79-45; Watanabe, Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi (2011), #45; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #34.45
DescriptionNo. 45 in the series.
MFA impressions: 00.1834 (later edition with green background, creped), 11.36763.48
Landscapes by Hiroshige, figures by Kunisada I (Toyokuni III). The subtitles of the landscapes, if present, appear on the individual prints; the subtitles referring to the figures are found only on the title page for the series, 11.36763.3 .
Album of all 55 prints in the series, plus cover slip, title page, and hand-written preface and colophon: 11.36763.1-59
Takatomizan is the alternate name of the temple Ishiyakushi-dera.
和泉屋市兵衛版の大判錦絵を縮緬絵にしたもの。「双筆五十三次」は丸屋久四郎版もあり。
MFA impressions: 00.1834 (later edition with green background, creped), 11.36763.48
Landscapes by Hiroshige, figures by Kunisada I (Toyokuni III). The subtitles of the landscapes, if present, appear on the individual prints; the subtitles referring to the figures are found only on the title page for the series, 11.36763.3 .
Album of all 55 prints in the series, plus cover slip, title page, and hand-written preface and colophon: 11.36763.1-59
Takatomizan is the alternate name of the temple Ishiyakushi-dera.
和泉屋市兵衛版の大判錦絵を縮緬絵にしたもの。「双筆五十三次」は丸屋久四郎版もあり。
Signed
Hiroshige hitsu (above); Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (below)
広重筆、豊国画(年玉枠)
広重筆、豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks
Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、卯八
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、卯八
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)