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Moonlit Night at Kasumigaseki (Kasumigaseki yoi no tsuki), cut from one sheet of the harimaze series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 霞ヶ関宵の月」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ezakiya Tatsuzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1843–44 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 35.2 x 7.8 cm (13 7/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2156
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #3.1, pl. 8 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, vertical ôban #49.1; Tanba 1965, #99 (uncut sheet); Matsuki 1939, #575 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a series of five sheets with three small designs each, for a total of fifteen views. On this sheet: 11.2249 (Susaki, upper lower right); Shinobazu (lower right, not in collection), 11.2156 (Kasumigaseki, left).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし