Hara: The Old Bamboo Cutter; the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori ôkina, Taketori monogatari, cut from sheet 4 of the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi harimaze), or Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)

五十三次張交　四　「竹取物語　原　竹取翁」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 33.8 x 9.6 cm (13 5/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8703

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #23.04

Signed HIroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Artost's seal: Hiro