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Goyu: The Honno Plain with a Panoramic View of Mount Fuji (Honno-ga-hara, Fuji chôbô); Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Yamamoto (=Yokozô) and Bandô Mitsugorô III as Naoe (=Jihizô), from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)


「双筆五十三次 御油 本野か原 不二眺望」 目録:「山本 直江」五代目松本幸四郎の横蔵、三代目坂東三津五郎の慈悲蔵
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), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped
Dimensions Vertical ôban, creped; 21.5 x 15.1 cm (8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1838
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T79-36; Watanabe, Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi (2011), #36; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #34.36
DescriptionNo. 36 in the series.

MFA impressions: 00.1838 (later edition with green background, creped), 11.36763.39

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。 御油は山本勘助の生地。
Signed Hiroshige ga (above); Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (below)
広重画、豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 4
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:改、卯四
彫師:彫竹
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 5, 1900)