Kyoto: Enjoying the Cool of Evening on the Riverbed at Shijô (Kyô Shijô-gawara yûsuzumi), cut from sheet 14 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　十四　「京　四条川原夕すずみ」

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; 18.8 x 18.8 cm (7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8724

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), p. 210 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #23.14

DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Kusatsu, Ôtsu, and Kyoto stations.
MFA impressions: 21.8724 (Kyoto), 11.38694 (Kusatsu)

Signed Hiroshige
広重

Marks Artist's seal: Ryûsai