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Takanawa, 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 「高輪」
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; 20.4 x 12.1 cm (8 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8864
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.10, pl. 120 (uncut sheet, full color; blue version not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #08.10; Matsuki 1939, #582 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Takanawa (TR), Horikiri (TL), Nakasu (B).

MFA impressions: 21.8863 (Nakasu, blue), 21.8864 (Takanawa, blue), 21.8865 (Takanawa, color), 21.8875 (Horikiri, blue), RES.54.15 (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.