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Plum Garden at Kamata (Kamata no umezono), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 蒲田の梅園」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.7 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9453
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.33, pls. 184, 185; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #27; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.31
DescriptionNo. 027 (spring section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16751, 11.45659, 21.9453, 21.9454, 52.1420
春の部。図は、池を造り茶屋も置いた梅見の名所、山本久三郎の梅園。東海道に近い蒲田は農家が副業に植えた梅の木が有名で、道中の常備薬「和中散(わちゅうさん)」を売る店も梅の木を目印に営業した。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 2
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳二
彫師:なし
ProvenanceFebruary 1916, 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.