Fukuroi: Old Story, the Old Story of Cherry Blossom Pond (Fukuroi, Koji, Sakura-ga-ike no koji), cut from sheet 8 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)

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Fukuroi: Old Story, the Old Story of Cherry Blossom Pond (Fukuroi, Koji, Sakura-ga-ike no koji), cut from sheet 8 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　八　「桜ヶ池之故事　袋井　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; 21.5 x 12 cm (8 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8683

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #90-9 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #45 (series of 15 sheets, not listed individually)

DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Nissaka (TL), Kakegawa (TR), and Fukuroi (B) stations.

Signed (this picture unsigned)

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 2
改印：改、辰二