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Waterfall River at Ôji (Ôji Taki-no-kawa), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)


江戸名所張交図会 「王子滝の川」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (aizuri-e); color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 21.5 x 9.5 cm (8 7/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8849
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.8, pl. 118 (uncut sheet, full color; blue version not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, vertical ôban #08.08; Matsuki 1939, #586 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Ôji (TR), Shinagawa (TL), Suijin no mori (B).
MFA impressions: 21.8847 (Suijin no mori, blue), 21.8848 (Shinagawa, blue), 21.8849 (Ôji, blue), 21.8857 (Ôji, color), 21.8858 (Shinagawa, color), RES.54.12 (uncut sheet)
Signed (this picture unsigned)
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.