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Bow-shaped Crecent Moon (Yumiharizuki), from the series Twenty-eight Views of the Moon (Tsuki nijû hakkei no uchi )


「月二拾八景之内 弓張月」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 36.9 x 16.4 cm (14 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6791
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné San Francisco, Hokusai & Hiroshige (1998), #188 (1st ed.); Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #123; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #1.2
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.6790 (Wakasaya Yoichi, first edition), 21.6791 (Sanoya Kihei edition, slightly later)

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997); and in San Francisco 1998, p. 247.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
ProvenanceAcquired by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright, as part of Kacho Lot; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.