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Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no ike), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 不忍之池」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Masudaya Ginjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.8 x 36.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2160
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #68.4, pl. 614; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #62.04; Matsuki 1939, #66
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.2160 (Masudaya), *11.2250 (Masudaya, deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9836 (no mark; first edition?)

Second edition, published by Masudaya Ginjirô.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜
彫師:なし
ProvenanceOctober 16, 1911, gift of Denman Waldo Ross