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The Embankment at Mimeguri (Mimeguri zutsumi), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Harimaze Kôto meisho)


張混江都名所 「三囲堤」
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; 9.7 x 17.5 cm (3 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8826
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #9.1, pl. 87 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, vertical ôban #51.1; Matsuki 1939, #577 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures including 21.8826 (Mimeguri, bottom right), 21.8827 (Goten-yama, top left), 21.8828 (Ryôgoku Bridge, top right) and 21.8829 (Asakusa, center).
Signed Ryûsai hitsu
立斎筆
Marks Artist's seal: Hiroshige