Drawing for: No. 49, Sakanoshita: the Mountain where the Old Master Threw Away His Brush (Ko hôgen Fudesuteyama), and Sightseeing at Famous Spots (Meisho kenbutsu), from the series Fifty-three Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan zue)

「東海道五十三図絵　四十九　坂の下　古法限筆捨山　名所見物」　（下絵）

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1849–53 (Kaei 2–6)

Medium/Technique Ink on paper, with slight color

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.6 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number53.498

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #134 (this drawing); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #42.49

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Provenance1953, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)