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Cherry Blossom Time at Naka-no-chô in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Naka-no-chô sakura toki), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 吉原仲の町桜時」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.2 x 36.1 cm (9 1/8 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 Number54.415
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #60.10, pl. 709; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #14.10
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.2117 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.10037, 54.415
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)