Kyoto: A Visitor from Yase (Keishi, Yase no marebito), cut from sheet 15 of the harimaze series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi zue)

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Kyoto: A Visitor from Yase (Keishi, Yase no marebito), cut from sheet 15 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　十五　「京師　八瀬の希人」　（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; 17.7 x 16.2 cm (6 15/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8698

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga, Part II (2009), Edo #90-16 (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 Ishibe (TL), Kusatsu (TR), Ôtsu (BR), and Kyoto (BL) stations.

MFA impressions: 21.8697 (Kusatsu), 21.8698 (Kyoto)

Signed (this picture unsigned)