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Benten Shrine, Inokashira Pond (Inokashira no ike Benten no yashiro), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 井の頭の池弁天(べんてん)の社(やしろ)」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 33.9 x 20.2 cm (13 3/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9486
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.13, pls. 145, 146; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #87; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.11
DescriptionNo. 087 (fall section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.26349, 11.36876.59, 21.9486, 21.10435
秋の部。武蔵野の豊かな湧水井の頭の池は、地底の七つの泉が水を噴出しており「七井(なない)の池」とも呼ばれ、神田上水として江戸市内へ供給された。左下には水神として祀られた弁天社を配し、遠くに山々を描く。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Dragon 4; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:(改、辰四)
彫師:なし
ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.