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Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 三島 朝霧」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.3 x 36.1 cm (9 9/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number53.437
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.12
DescriptionNo. 12 in the series. Key block only, hence no publisher's mark.

MFA impressions: *06.1488 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17270 (creped; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.26107, 11.30191, 11.38919, 11.38920, 11.41821, *11.45568 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.5024, 53.437 (key block), 2009.2411.12
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1953, sold by Warren E. Cox and Associates, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)