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Ama no Hashidate, from the series Famous Places of Our Country (Honchô meisho)


「本朝名所 天橋立」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1837 (Tenpô 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.5 x 37.7 cm (9 2/3 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.50
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 243, horizontal ôban #82.01
DescriptionMFA impressions: 20.50, 21.8935, 21.8936
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)