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Tôeizan Temple at Ueno (Ueno Tôeizan no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 上野東叡山之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1850s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.4 x 37.1 cm (10 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9797
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #?, pl. 854; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #60.02; first edition: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.1, pls. 525-526
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1352 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.2213, *11.45564 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9797

From a reprint edition, with altered title, of a series originally called Edo meisho no uchi, published around 1832-34.
No publisher's mark on this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.