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Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom at Goten-yama (Goten-yama hanazakari), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 御殿山花盛」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1850s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.1 x 36 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 Number54.403
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #?, pl. 855; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #60.4; first edition: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.3, pls. 528-529
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.9796, 54.403

From a reprint edition, with altered title, of a series originally called Edo meisho no uchi, published around 1832-34.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)