Fragment of: The Ferry Crossing at Sakasai (Sakasai no watashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Fragment of: The Ferry Crossing at Sakasai (Sakasai no watashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

名所江戸百景　逆井のわたし　（断簡）

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1857 (Ansei 4), 2nd month

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

Dimensions Fragment cut from vertical ôban sheet; 8.9 x 7 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8819

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.46, pls. 212, 213; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #67; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.45

DescriptionNo. 067 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16698, 21.9471; and fragments: 21.8817, 21.8818, 21.8819, 21.8820

Signed (this fragment unsigned)