Fragment of: Izanami and Izanagi on the Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ame no Ukihashi), No. 1 from the series Illustrated History of Japan (Honchô nenreki zue) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Fragment of: Izanami and Izanagi on the Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ame no Ukihashi), No. 1 from the series Illustrated History of Japan (Honchô nenreki zue)

Fragment of: Izanami and Izanagi on the Floating Bridge of Heaven (Ame no Ukihashi), No. 1 from the series Illustrated History of Japan (Honchô nenreki zue)

本朝年暦図絵　一　「天の浮橋」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1849–50 (Kôka 2–3)

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

Dimensions Lower half of horizontal ôban; 15 x 33.9 cm (5 15/16 x 13 1/3 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.625

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mueller et al., Competition and Collaboration (2007), #86; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 243, horizontal ôban #81.01

DescriptionThe top half of the print, with the series title and a text describing the scene, has been cut off.

MFA impressions: 49.625 (lower part only), 2009.5007.1 (intact sheet)

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印：福、村松
彫師：なし

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