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Sheet 1, Nihonbashi to Yui, from the series Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô in Continuing Pictures (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi meisho tsuzuki-e)


「東海道五十三次名所続画 一」 日本橋から由井へ
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Jōshūya Kinzō (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 20.5 cm (14 3/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund and the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number50.665
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 231, jûnibangiri #6 (?); Uchida, p. 25
DescriptionMFA impressions: 50.665, RES.49.6
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy exchange, Chinese and Japanese Special Fund and the Bigelow Collection