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Cherry Trees in Rain on the Sumida River Embankment (Sumida zutsumi uchû no sakura), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 隅田堤雨中之桜」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1850s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.8 x 37.3 cm (10 3/16 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9790
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #83.6, pl. 856; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #60.06; Tanba 1965, #196; Matsuki 1939, #111; first edition: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.4, pl. 529 [sic; =530]
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.602 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9790, 21.9791, 21.9792, 21.9793, 21.9794, 21.9795, 54.402

From a reprint edition, with altered title, of a series originally called Edo meisho no uchi, published around 1832-34.
Signed Unsigned
無款
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.