Returning Sails at Takanawa (Takanawa no kihan), from the series Eight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto hakkei)

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Returning Sails at Takanawa (Takanawa no kihan), from the series Eight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto hakkei)

「東都八景　高輪の帰帆」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

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

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 17.7 x 24 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24

Accession Number54.385

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #25.6

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.9064, 54.385

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
彫師：なし

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)