Full Moon at Takanawa (Takanawa meigetsu), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Harimaze Kôto meisho)

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Full Moon at Takanawa (Takanawa meigetsu), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Harimaze Kôto meisho)

張混江都名所　「高輪名月」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 2nd month

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

Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 33.7 x 5.4 cm (13 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8823

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #9.2, pl. 88 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, vertical ôban #51.2; Tanba 1965, #474 (uncut sheet); Matsuki 1939, #578 (uncut sheet)

DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures.

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Artist's seal: Ryûsai

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.