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Returning Sails at Kanazawa: View of Nojima from Seto Bridge (Kanazawa kihan, Setobashi yori Nojima no zu), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), 1st edition


「名所八景 金沢帰帆 従瀬戸橋野島之図」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 36.4 cm (9 13/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number53.449
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 53.449 (first edition), RES.54.112 (second edition)

In the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Signed Toyokuni hitsu
豊国筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Utagawa
改印:極
Provenance1953, sold by Warren E. Cox to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)