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Visiting the Fudô Temple in Megoro (Meguro Fudô môde), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 目黒不動詣」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–34 (Tenpô 3–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.4 x 38 cm (9 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.40
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #49.9, pl. 461; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #11.14
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39196, 20.40, 21.8901

All three MFA impressions appear to be from the first edition of 1832-34 rather than the later edition of 1839-42 (Sakai pl. 474).
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)