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Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki yau), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 唐崎夜雨」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.3 x 27 cm (9 9/16 x 10 2/3 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number42.567
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #71; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.4
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.885, *11.2020 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.2094, 11.2129, 21.6809, 21.6810, 34.289, 42.567, 53.2736

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Yo no ame ni/ oto o yuzurite/ yûkaze o/ yoso ni na tatsuru/ Karasaki no matsu
夜の雨に 音をゆつりて 夕風を よそになたつる から崎のまつ
Provenance1942, gift of Lucy Truman Aldrich (b. 1869 - d. 1955), Providence, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1942)