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New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji (Ōji Shōzoku enoki Ōmisoka no kitsunebi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Sakanaya Eikichi, Kinshōdō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ōban; 34.8 x 24.1 cm (13 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9516
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fūkei (1996), list #12.22, pls. 162-164; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #118; Ukiyo-e shūka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ōban #62.25
DescriptionNo. 118 (winter section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 06.1259, 11.2212, 11.36876.75, 11.45639, 21.9516, 21.9517, 46.1403
Meiji reproduction: RES.52.90
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 9
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳九
彫師:なし
ProvenanceJuly 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.