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Moonlit Evening at Takanawa (Takanawa tsukiyo no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 高輪月夜之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Kotanzaku; 36.9 x 10 cm (14 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7055
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #107.8, pl. 1077; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 239, kotanzaku #01.5; Matsuki 1939, #620
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.826, 21.7055
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.