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Azuma Wood (Azuma no mori), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 吾妻之森」
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 36.2 cm (9 1/16 x 14 1/4 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 Number54.398
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.3, pls. 764-765; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.1; Matsuki 1939, #50
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.929 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9909, 54.398
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)