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Snow Landscape with Skull Shapes, left sheet of the triptych Taira Kiyomori Haunted by Strange Sights (Taira Kiyomori kaii o miru zu)


平清盛怪異を見る図(左)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1844–45 (Kôka 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 26 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5920
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Musha-e (2003), #49 (complete triptych); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 248, ôban triptych #61
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.26797-9 (complete triptych), 21.5920 (left sheet only, without publisher's mark)
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Hiro
改印:渡
彫師:なし
ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.