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Shirabyôshi Dancer in a Boat (Asazumabune), cut from an untitled harimaze sheet


浅妻船 (張交)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban (or aiban?) sheet; 20.5 x 11.7 cm (8 1/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8809
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #79.2; Tanba 1965, #467 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet with four designs, including one calligraphy and three pictures.

An impression of the uncut sheet is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, accession no. 81.133.119 (illustrated on website).
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆