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Splendid View from the Top of Matsuchiyama (Matsuchiyama ue mibarashi no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 真乳山上見晴之景」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–38 (Tenpô 3–9)

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 Number54.401
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #54.18, pl. 524; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #64.13; Matsuki 1939, #46
DescriptionThere are two editions of this series, a first edition from the 1830s and a reprint edition with censorship seals of the 1840s.
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)