No. 21 - Maruko (=Mariko), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Aritaya Tôkaidô – Works

No. 21 - Maruko (=Mariko), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Aritaya Tôkaidô

「東海道　廿一　五十三次之内　丸子（＝鞠子）」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

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

Dimensions Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 11.7 x 17.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.273

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 233, horizontal yotsugiri #31.21

DescriptionFrom a set of 56 small designs, printed four to a sheet on 14 horizontal ôban sheets.

MFA impressions: 06.1588, 21.9186, 34.273

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)