Yamashiro Province: Kyoto, the Willow Tree at the Gate of Shimabara (Miyako Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), cut from sheet 1 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

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Yamashiro Province: Kyoto, the Willow Tree at the Gate of Shimabara (Miyako Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), cut from sheet 1 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

国尽張交図会　一　「みやこ　しま原　出口の柳」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month

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

Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 19.9 x 12.5 cm (7 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number50.25

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiroshige Mus., Ena, Meisho no hensen (203), #2-1; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #19.01; Tanba 1965, #102

DescriptionFrom a sheet of two calligraphic title panels and two pictures showing Yamashiro and Yamato provinces.

From the same sheet: 21.8751 (Yamato), 50.25 (Yamashiro)

Signed (this picture unsigned)

Provenance1950, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1950)