Higashi Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa Higashi Hongan-ji no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

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Higashi Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa Higashi Hongan-ji no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

「江戸名所　浅草東本願寺の図」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23 x 35.8 cm (9 1/16 x 14 1/16 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 Number54.421

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #60.1, pl. 696; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #14.1; Matsuki 1939, #182

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.10031, 54.421

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、吉村
彫師：なし

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)