Higo Province: Hand-drum Falls (Higo, Tsuzumi no taki), cut from sheet 18 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

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Higo Province: Hand-drum Falls (Higo, Tsuzumi no taki), cut from sheet 18 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

国尽張交図会　十八　「肥後　鼓之滝」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirō (Shōrindō) (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; 36.5 x 4.5 cm (14 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8769

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiroshige Mus., Ena, Meisho no hensen (203), #2-18; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #19.18

DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures showing Higo, Hyûga, Ôsumi, and Satsuma provinces, and the islands of Iki and Tsushima.

MFA impressions: 21.8769 (Higo), RES.54.26 (uncut sheet)

Signed (this picture unsigned)

Marks Censors' seals: (Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 12; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印：（衣笠、村田、子十二）
彫師：なし