Akasaka, cut from sheet 9 of the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi harimaze), also called Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)

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Akasaka, cut from sheet 9 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　九　「赤坂」

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; 18 x 12 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8718

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252 ôban #23.09; Tanba 1965, #475 (uncut sheet)

DescriptionFrom a sheet of four pictures showing Futakawa, Yoshida, Goyu, and Akasaka stations.
MFA impressions: 21.8716 (Goyu), 21.8717 and 21.8718 (both Akasaka)

Signed (this picture unsigned)