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Open Garden at Fukagawa Hachiman Shrine (Fukagawa Hachiman yamabiraki), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 深川八まん山ひらき」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.9 x 24.4 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9472
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.94, pl. 318, 319, 320; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.093
DescriptionNo. 068 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16701, 11.35835, 11.36876.45, 21.9472, 52.1422
夏の部。深川富岡八幡宮に隣接する別当寺、永代寺には、桜や楓、富士塚もあり美しい眺めであった。毎年弘法大師の命日3月21日から28(一説に4月15)日まで庭園を公開した。題名はこれと富士塚の山開きをかけたもの。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳八
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.