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Sakanoshita: Famous Places, Throw-away-the-brush Mountain and the River of Eighty Rapids (Sakanoshita, meisho, Fudesuteyama, Yasose-gawa), cut from sheet 11 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)


東海道張交図絵 十一 「坂の下 名所 筆捨山 八十瀬川」
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; 34.5 x 5.3 cm (13 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8745
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #46.11
DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures showing Kameyama, Seki, Sakanoshita, Tsuchiyama, and Minakuchi stations.
MFA impressions: 11.17214 (uncut sheet, Ibaya edition), 21.8743, 21.8744 (both Kameyama), 21.8745 (Sakanoshita), RES.49.13 (uncut sheet, reprint edition with no publisher's mark)
Signed (this picture unsigned)
ProvenanceAcquired by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.