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View to the North from Asuka Hill (Asukayama kita no chôbô), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 飛鳥山(あすかやま)北の眺望」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 24.8 cm (14 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9449
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.8, pls. 135-137; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.8
DescriptionNo. 017 (spring section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.17071, 11.45646, 21.9449, 52.1426
春の部。現在も花見の名所として人気のある飛鳥山を描く。飛鳥山には八代将軍吉宗により多くの桜が植えられ、西に富士、北に筑波山(画面中央)を臨むことができたことからも多くの人びとが訪れた。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 5
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰五
彫師:なし
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.