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Carp of the Tone River (Tonegawa koi), 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 「とね川の鯉」
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; 17.8 x 15.4 cm (7 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8862
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.9, pl. 119 (uncut sheet, full color, yellow background); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #08.09; Matsuki 1939, #581 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Kameido Tenjin (R), Tonegawa (TL), Goten-yama (BL).
MFA impressions: 21.8861 (Tonegawa), 21.8862 (Tonegawa), 21.8873 (Goten-yama), 21.8874 (Kameido Tenjin), RES.21.414 (Kameido Tenjin), RES.54.14 (uncut sheet)
Signed (this picture unsigned)