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Sudden Shower over Shin-Ôhashi Bridge and Atake (Ôhashi Atake no yûdachi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 大はしあたけの夕立」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical oban; 35.2 x 23.8 cm (13 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession Number53.494
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.27, pls. 171, 172; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #58; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.22
DescriptionNo. 058 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.36945, 11.45664, 21.9465, 21.9466, 34.292, 46.1399, 53.494
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Snake 9; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳九
彫師:なし
Provenance1953, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: May 14, 1953)