Tango Province: Ama no hashidate (Tango, Ama no hashidate), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

「六十余州名所図絵　丹後　天の橋立」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Hori Sôji (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 12th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 25 cm (14 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.618

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #38; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.40

DescriptionNo. 38 (San'indô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.38 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17001, 11.26246, *11.36887 (deaccessioned in 2012), 49.618, RES.53.181

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Ox 12
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Sôji
改印：改、丑十二
彫師：ホリ宗二

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)