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Kinryûzan Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 浅草金龍山」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1840s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.2 x 37.1 cm (9 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2024
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #97.2, pls. 958-959; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, horizontal aiban #8.2
DescriptionSakai dates the first edition (pl. 958) as 1839-42 and the second edition (pl. 959) as 1843-47.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
ProvenanceOctober 16, 1911, gift of Denman Waldo Ross