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「東都名所 五百羅漢さゞゐ堂」
The Spiral Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku rakan Sazaidô), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)
「東都名所 五百羅漢さゞゐ堂」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)
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 Number54.405
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #70.5, pl. 649; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #68.5; Matsuki 1939, #72
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1086 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.2587 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9777, 54.405
No publisher's mark on this impression.
No publisher's mark on this impression.
Signed
Hiroshige ga
広重画
広重画
Marks
No censor's seal
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)