Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

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Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

「東都名所　浅草金竜山年ノ市」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1835–38 (Tenpô 6–9)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.5 x 37.4 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.79

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.2, pl. 763; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.2; Tanba 1965, #227; Matsuki 1939, #52

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.545 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.24938 (deaccessioned in 2019), 20.79, 21.9896, 21.9897, 51.21

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)