View to the North from Asuka Hill (Asukayama kita no chôbô), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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View to the North from Asuka Hill (Asukayama kita no chôbô), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

「名所江戸百景　飛鳥山北の眺望」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1856 (Ansei 3), 5th month

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

Dimensions Vertical oban; 35.9 x 22.9 cm (14 1/8 x 9 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Dr. G. S. Amsden

Accession Number52.1426

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.8, pls. 135-137; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #17; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.8

DescriptionNo. 017 (spring section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.17071, 11.45646, 21.9449, 52.1426

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 5
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、辰五
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)