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

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

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; 21.6 x 35.1 cm (8 1/2 x 13 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number11.2250

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

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