Sunset Glow at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku no sekishô), from the series Eight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto hakkei)

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Sunset Glow at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku no sekishô), from the series Eight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto hakkei)

「東都八景　両国の夕照」

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; 17.6 x 24.5 cm (6 15/16 x 9 2/3 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 Number54.386

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #25.8

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.9065, 54.386

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)