Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Hiratsuka: Ferryboats on the Ba'nyû River (Hiratsuka, Ba'nyû-gawa watashibune), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Kyôka Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次 平塚 馬入川渡舟」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 15.1 x 20.8 cm (5 15/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9116
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.08
DescriptionNo. 8 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.8, *06.1456 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2047 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.39927 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.39935 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9116, RES.53.158
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in lower left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
Inscriptions大磯へいそぐえき路のすヾのねにいさむ馬入の渡し船かな 芦原満邦
ProvenanceNovember 1912, 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.