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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Kusatsu: Famous Post House (Kusatsu, Meibutsu tateba), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 草津 名物立場」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.9 x 34.2 cm (8 5/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.1962
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Toraya, Atsumeru tanoshimi (Yoshida coll., 2012), p. 96; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.53
DescriptionNo. 53 in the series.

MFA impressions: *06.883 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.1962 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17272, *11.17273 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.23107, 11.38861, 11.38862, *11.38863 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.38864 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.5083, 2009.2411.53
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)