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Odawara: The Sakawa River (Odawara, Sakawagawa), 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 小田原 酒匂川」
After: Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Meiji era?

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.2 x 35.8 cm (9 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5020
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Reproduction of: Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.10
DescriptionNo. 10 in the series, reproduction based on second and/or third state.

MFA impressions of the Odawara design:
First (?) state (two figures on near bank, Strange #10):
*06.1495 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17260 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.23085, 11.26104, 11.30190, 21.5012, 2009.2411.10
Second (?) state (five figures on near bank, rounded mountains, Strange #10b):
11.17302, 11.30189, 21.5022
Third (?) state (five figures on near bank, pointed mountains, Strange #10c):
*06.1419 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17301, 21.5021
Fake based on second and/or third state (Strange #10a):
*11.2139 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.26105, 21.5020
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.