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Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase kihan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei)


「近江八景 八橋帰帆」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 23 cm (14 7/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number53.2052
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #16.8
DescriptionKey block of a Meiji reproduction: RES.49.31
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 3
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳三
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoem: Maho kakete/ Yabase ni kaeru/ fune wa ima/ uchide no hama o/ ato no oikaze
Provenance1953, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA.