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Inside Kameido Tenjin Shrine (Kameido Tenjin keidai), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 亀戸天神境内」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.6 x 24.2 cm (14 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. G. S. Amsden
Accession Number52.1423
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.35, pls. 189-191; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #65; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.33
DescriptionNo. 065 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 06.636, 11.36876.43, 21.9470, 52.1423
夏の部。正保3(1646)年に筑前(福岡)太宰府天満宮のご神木「飛梅(とびうめ)」で作った菅原道真像を亀戸村の小祠に祭ったのが亀戸天満宮の始まりという。印象派の画家モネは本図に影響を受け、自宅に太鼓橋のある日本庭園を作ったとされる。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Dragon 7; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:(改、辰七)
彫師:なし
Provenance1952, gift of Dr. George S. Amsden (b. 1870 - d. 1966), Acworth, NH, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1952)