Shimotsuke Province: the Old Story of the Deadly Rock of Nasu Moor (Shimotsuke, Nasu nohara sesshôseki no koji), cut from sheet 9 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

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Shimotsuke Province: the Old Story of the Deadly Rock of Nasu Moor (Shimotsuke, Nasu nohara sesshôseki no koji), cut from sheet 9 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

国尽張交図会　九　「下野　那須野原殺生石之故事」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 21.3 x 9 cm (8 3/8 x 3 9/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8757

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiroshige Mus., Ena, Meisho no hensen (203), #2-9; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #19.09

DescriptionFrom a sheet of four pictures showing Kôzuke, Shimotsuke, Mutsu, and Dewa provinces.

MFA impressions: 21.8757 (Shimotsuke), RES.54.22 (uncut sheet)

Signed Hiroshige
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