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Nihonbashi, from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 日本橋」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.1 x 36.1 cm (9 1/16 x 14 3/16 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 Number54.392
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #58.9, pl. 472; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #11.11; Matsuki 1939, #135
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.8194, 54.392
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)