Akasaka: Red Maple Leaves on Mount Miyaji (Akasaka, Miyajiyama no momiji), cut from sheet 11 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)

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Akasaka: Red Maple Leaves on Mount Miyaji (Akasaka, Miyajiyama no momiji), cut from sheet 11 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　十二　「赤坂　宮路山紅葉」　（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; 15.3 x 6.8 cm (6 x 2 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8686

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #90-12 (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 Goyu (TR), Akasaka (TL), Fujikawa (BR), and Okazaki (BL) stations.
MFA impressions: 21.8685 (Goyu), 21.8686 (Akasaka), 21.8719 (Okazaki)

Signed (this picture unsigned)

ProvenanceNovember 1912, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.