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Evening Bell at Kamakura: Mountains of Awa Province Seen from Tsurugaoka (Kamakura banshô, Tsurugaoka yori Bôshû yama no zu), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), 2nd edition


「名所八景 鎌倉晩鐘 鶴ヶ岡より房州山の図」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.3 x 35 cm (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Gordon Abbott, Mrs. George L. Batchelder, Jr., and Mrs. Francis B. Lothrop
Accession Number50.4049
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #407
DescriptionMFA impressions: 50.4049, RES.54.171 (both second edition)

In the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Signed Toyokuni hitsu
豊国筆
Marks Artist's seal: Utagawa
Provenance1950, gift of Gordon Abbott (Manchester), Mrs. George L. Batchelder, Jr. (Beverly), and Mrs. Francis B. Lothrop (Boston). (Accession date: December 14, 1950)