Kisarazu in Kazusa Province (Kazusa Kisarazu), from the series Famous Places of Awa, Kazusa, and Shimôsa Provinces (Bôsô Meisho)

「房総名所　上総木更津」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsujiya Yasubei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 11th month

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

Dimensions Uchiwa-e on horizontal aiban sheet; 22.5 x 29.3 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number53.504

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 230, fan prints #97.1; Matsuki and Yamada, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige dansen-e (1924), #98

DescriptionAnother print in the series: 53.502.

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 11 (in fan shape)
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、渡辺
彫師：なし

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