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Cherry Blossoms at Night on Naka-no-chô in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Naka-no-chô yozakura), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 吉原仲之町夜桜」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–38 (Tenpô 3–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.5 x 35.5 cm (9 1/4 x 14 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2073
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #8; Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.31, pl. 502; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.21; Tanba 1965, #25; Matsuki 1939, #18
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.2073 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.24932, 11.39266, 11.39267, 20.66, 21.9861, 21.9862

Title, publisher's mark, and censor's seal in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in lower right margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)