Cherry Trees on the Banks of the Sumida River, a Pentaptych (Sumidagawa sakura no kei, gomai tsuzuki)

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Cherry Trees on the Banks of the Sumida River, a Pentaptych (Sumidagawa sakura no kei, gomai tsuzuki)

隅田川桜の景　五枚続

Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1792 (Kansei 4)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38 x 24.6 cm (14 15/16 x 9 11/16 in.)

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

Accession Number34.357

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #48, pl. 136 (complete); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #60; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #934, pl. LXXVIII

DescriptionSheet 4 (from right) of incomplete pentaptych.

Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

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