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Minakuchi: Panoramic View of Mount Iwafuri (Iwafuriyama chôbô); Actors (?) as Ofude and Banba Chûta in the Sasahiki Scene from the Play Hiragana Seisuiki (Seisuiki Sasahiki), from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)


「双筆五十三次 水口 岩振山眺望」 目録:「盛衰記 笹引」 お筆と番場忠太
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped
Dimensions Vertical ôban, creped; 21.5 x 15.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1837
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T79-51; Watanabe, Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi (2011), #51; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #34.51
DescriptionNo. 51 in the series.

MFA impressions: 00.1837 (later edition with green background, creped), 11.36763.54

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
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)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 8
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:改、卯八
彫師:彫竹
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 5, 1900)