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Twilight Snow at Asakusa (Asakusa no bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of the Eastern Capital (Tôto hakkei)


「東都八景 浅艸の暮雪」
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; 17.8 x 24.2 cm (7 x 9 1/2 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 Number54.391
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #25.1
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.654 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9062, 54.391
Signed Hiroshige ga
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)