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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
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.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)