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Panoramic View from Asuka Hill (Asukayama chôbô), 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 「飛鳥山眺望」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 14.7 x 25.7 cm (5 13/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8855
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.2, pls. 108 (uncut, color, gray background) and 109 (uncut, color, blue background; blue version not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #08.02; Matsuki 1939, #587 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Asukayama (T), Saruwaka-machi (BR), Koganei (BL).
There are at least four color variations of this print: all blue (not in Sakai), color with gray background (Sakai pl. 108), color with blue background (Sakai pl. 109), color with yellow backgorund (not in Sakai)
MFA impressions: 21.8850 (Asukayama, all blue), 21.8855 (Asukayama, color, blue background), 21.8856 (Saruwaka-machi, color, gray background), RES.54.10 (uncut sheet, yellow background)
Signed (this picture unsigned)