Kanagawa: Old Story of the Urashima Temple (Kanagawa, Urashima-dera no koji), cut from sheet 2 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)

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Kanagawa: Old Story of the Urashima Temple (Kanagawa, Urashima-dera no koji), cut from sheet 2 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)

東海道五十三次図会　二　「かな川　浦島寺の故事」　（張交）

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1856 (Ansei 3), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 18.4 x 8.3 cm (7 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8673

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #90-3 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #45 (series of 15 sheets, not listed individually)

DescriptionFrom a sheet of four pictures showing Kanagawa (BR), Hodogaya (BC), Totsuka (TR), and Fujisawa (L) stations.

Signed (seal only)

Marks Artist's seal: Ryûsai
立斎

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.