Yui: Praying for Rain (Amagoi); the Kurasawa Dance (Kurasawa odori), cut from sheet 5 of the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi harimaze), also called Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)

五十三次張交　五　「由井　雨乞　くら沢おどり」

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; 33.3 x 7.7 cm (13 1/8 x 3 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8707

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #23.05

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.8706, 21.8707

Signed Hiroshige
広重

Marks Artist's seal: Hiro