The Messenger of Bishamon on the Third Day of the New Year, an Old Custom at Mount Atago in Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama kitsurei shôgatsu mikka Bishamon no tsukai), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

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The Messenger of Bishamon on the Third Day of the New Year, an Old Custom at Mount Atago in Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama kitsurei shôgatsu mikka Bishamon no tsukai), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

「江戸名所　芝愛宕山吉例　正月三日毘沙門之使」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 36.6 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.9983

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #84.21, pl. 887; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #19.20

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Ox 11
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、渡辺、丑十一
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMay 1917, 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.