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Listening to Crickets at Dôkan Hill (Dôkan-yama mushi-kiki no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 道灌山虫聞之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.8 x 33.7 cm (8 9/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9883
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #54.16, pl. 522; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #63.08; Tanba 1965, #39; Matsuki 1939, #34
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.910 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17259, 21.9883, RES.54.186

Title in right magin, cut off and mounted separately; publisher's mark (Sanoki) cut off.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceFebruary 1916, 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.