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Totsuka: Motomachi Fork (Totsuka, Motomachi betsudô), second version, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 戸塚 元町別道」
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; 24.9 x 37.8 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5007
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.06
DescriptionNo. 06 in the series, second version; published by Hôeidô alone.
MFA impressions:
First version, with man dismounting from horse: *06.1339 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2166 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.23084, 11.38931, 11.38932, 11.41824, 21.5006, 2009.2411.6
Second version, with man mounting horse: 11.21128, 21.5007, 21.5008
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
ProvenanceJuly 1914, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.