Miya: Kagekiyo Going to the Kannon Temple (Kagekiyo Kannon môde), cut from sheet 12 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)

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Miya: Kagekiyo Going to the Kannon Temple (Kagekiyo Kannon môde), 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　「宮　景清観音詣」　（張交）

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tōbei (Kinkōdō) (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; 18.8 x 10.7 cm (7 3/8 x 4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8691

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

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 Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Artist's seal: Hiro

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