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Fireworks at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku hanabi), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho no uchi)


「江戸名所之内 両国花火」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–34 (Tenpô 3–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.5 x 37.2 cm (10 1/16 x 14 2/3 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.1942
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.5, pl. 532; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #21.5; Matsuki 1939, #152
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.1942, *11.1985 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.10054

All three MFA impressions are late printings, with the upper cloud band missing and the lower cloud band recut.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極