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Goggle-eyed Sea Bream and Bamboo Grass, from an untitled series known as Large Fish (supplemental group)


魚尽くし 目出鯛、笹
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.4 x 37.3 cm (10 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9614
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1998), #106; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 243, horizontal ôban #100.01
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17430, 21.9614

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 hitsu
広重筆
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem
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.