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Lobster and Shrimp, from an untitled series known as Large Fish


魚尽くし 伊勢海老、芝蝦
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–33 (Tenpô 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 36.7 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9605
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #118.8; Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #III.6; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1998), #120; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 243, horizontal ôban #91.02
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1525, 06.2569, 11.41801, 21.9605

Poems translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 300.

The first edition of this series was privately printed in the form of a kyôka poetry album in the orihon format, with ten illustrated sheets and four sheets of text only. Soon afterward, the blocks were reused for commercial prints, with the publisher's mark and censor's kiwame seal added (and in a few cases, different poems). One additional design, the trout, was included in the commercial series; and another nine designs were added still later by a different publisher. For a full reproduction and detailed discussion of the first edition, see Mann 2021, pp. 290-311.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoems by Shimotsuke Edozaki Ryokujuen Motoari (Ryokujuen Motoari from Edozaki in Shimotsuke Province) and Nen'an Machikado
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.