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The Spiral Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku rakan Sazaidô), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 五百羅漢さざゐ堂」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.9 x 37 cm (9 7/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10035
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #60.5, pls. 701-702; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #14.5; Matsuki 1939, #180
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1205, *06.1331 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.10035, 54.416
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
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.