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Mitsuke: Ferry on the Tenryû River (Mitsuke, Tenryûgawa funawatashi), 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 見附 天竜川船渡し」
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 20.5 cm (5 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9137
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #24.29
DescriptionNo. 29 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.829.29, *06.1437 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.39949 (deaccessioned in 2012), *11.45698 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9137, RES.53.167
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in lower left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
Inscriptionsむかしたり初てこゝにゆびさして見附の宿のふじのいたゞき 朝霞庵於喜金
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.