Kanagawa: View of the Bluff from Asamashita (Kanagawa Asamashita yori dai o miru zu), from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô

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Kanagawa: View of the Bluff from Asamashita (Kanagawa Asamashita yori dai o miru zu), from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô

「東海道五十三次之内　加奈川　浅間下より台を見る図」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei (Tenjudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1841–44 (Tenpô 12–Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal aiban; 22.5 x 33.2 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8983

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 242, horizontal aiban #5.04

DescriptionNo. 4 in the series.

MFA impressions: *06.1092 (deaccessioned in 2019), 06.1793, 11.39985, 21.8983

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMay 1915, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.