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Evening View of Takanawa (Takanawa yûkei), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 高輪夕景」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.5 x 37.4 cm (9 2/3 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.38
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #97.7, pl. 965 (as aiban); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, horizontal aiban #8.7
DescriptionMFA impressions: 20.38, 21.9835, RES.37.9

Publisher's mark in lanterns. All three MFA impressions lack the censor's seal seen on the impression illustrated in Sakai.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
改印:なし
彫師:なし
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)