Mitsuke: Ferry on the Tenryû River (Mitsuke, Tenryûgawa funewatashi), from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Mitsuke: Ferry on the Tenryû River (Mitsuke, Tenryûgawa funewatashi), from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô

Mitsuke: Ferry on the Tenryû River (Mitsuke, Tenryûgawa funewatashi), 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　見附　天龍川舟渡し」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ezakiya Tatsuzô (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; 19.2 x 30.4 cm (7 9/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.9338

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 242, horizontal aiban #5.29

DescriptionNo. 29 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.1818 (pub., no cens.), 11.40010 (no pub., cens.), 21.9338 (both pub. and cens.), 34.284 (pub., no cens.)

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Hama
改印：浜
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.