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

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

Signed Hiroshige hitsu (above); Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (below)
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

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