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Chiryû: The Old Story of the Irises at Yatsuhashi Bridge (Yatsuhashi no kakitsubata no koji), cut from sheet 12 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 「池鯉鮒 やつはしのかきつばたの故事」 (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; 18.2 x 11.1 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8687
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #90-13 (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 Chiryû (TL), Narumi (TR), Miya (BR), and Kuwana (BL) stations.

MFA impressions: 21.8687 (Chiryû), 21.8688 (Narumi), 21.8689 (Narumi), 21.8690 (Miya), 21.8691 (Miya), 21.8692 (Kuwana), 21.8693 (Kuwana), RES.49.95 (uncut sheet)
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.