Advanced Search ![Sakanoshita: The Brush-discarding Mountain and the Eighty Rapids (Fudesute-yama, Yaso segawa): Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Akogi no Heiji versus Hirogawara Jirozô, from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)](/internal/media/dispatcher/1072199/preview;jsessionid=80DAA49349C63177341CB01D2AFA62E1)
「双筆五十三次 坂之下 筆捨山 八十瀬川」 目録:「平 次」 阿漕の平次(八代目片岡仁左衛門)、平瓦次郎蔵
Sakanoshita: The Brush-discarding Mountain and the Eighty Rapids (Fudesute-yama, Yaso segawa): Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Akogi no Heiji versus Hirogawara Jirozô, from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)
「双筆五十三次 坂之下 筆捨山 八十瀬川」 目録:「平 次」 阿漕の平次(八代目片岡仁左衛門)、平瓦次郎蔵
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Maruya Kyûshirô
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Maruya Kyûshirô
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 4th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number49.671
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T79-49; Watanabe, Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi (2011), #49; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #34.49
DescriptionNo. 49 in the series.
MFA impressions: 11.36763.52, 49.671
Landscapes by Hiroshige, figures by Kunisada I (Toyokuni III). The subtitles of the landscapes, if present, appear on the individual prints; the subtitles referring to the figures are found only on the title page for the series, 11.36763.3 .
Album of all 55 prints in the series, plus cover slip, title page, and hand-written preface and colophon: 11.36763.1-59
MFA impressions: 11.36763.52, 49.671
Landscapes by Hiroshige, figures by Kunisada I (Toyokuni III). The subtitles of the landscapes, if present, appear on the individual prints; the subtitles referring to the figures are found only on the title page for the series, 11.36763.3 .
Album of all 55 prints in the series, plus cover slip, title page, and hand-written preface and colophon: 11.36763.1-59
Signed
Hiroshige hitsu (above); Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (below)
広重筆、豊国画(年玉枠)
広重筆、豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks
Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 4
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳四
彫師:なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳四
彫師:なし
Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)