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Okazaki: The Story of Ushiwakamaru and Jôruri-hime, the Old Tale of Yahagi (Okazaki, Jûnidan, Yahagi no mukashibanashi), cut from sheet 9 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)


東海道張交図絵 九 「岡崎 十二段 矢はきのむかし話」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 18.2 x 8.1 cm (7 3/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8739
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 7, Musee Guimet II (1990), fig. 118 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #46.09
DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures showing Akasaka, Fujikawa, Okazaki, Chiryû, and Narumi stations.
MFA impressions: 11.17210 (uncut sheet), 21.8739 (Okazaki), 21.8740 (Narumi)
Signed (this picture unsigned)