Minakuchi: Famous Dried Gourd (Minakuchi, meibutsu kanpyô), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Minakuchi: Famous Dried Gourd (Minakuchi, meibutsu kanpyô), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

「東海道五十三次之内　水口　名物干瓢」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.5 x 34.7 cm (8 7/8 x 13 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number11.2279

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.51

DescriptionNo. 51 in the series.

MFA impressions: *06.1299 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2279 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.23106, 11.38866, 11.38867, 21.5080, 2009.2411.51

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut offof this impression)
改印：（極）