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Kanaya: The Far Bank of the Ôi River (Kanaya, Ôigawa engan), cut from sheet 6 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)


東海道張交図絵 六 「金谷 大井川遠岸」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô (Dansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 15 x 22.9 cm (5 15/16 x 9 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper
Accession Number54.1542
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #46.06
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Shimada, Kanaya, and Nissaka stations.

MFA impressions: 11.17219 (uncut sheet, Ibaya edition), 54.1542 (Kanaya), RES.49.11 (uncut sheet, reprint edition with no publisher's mark)
Signed (this picture unsigned)
Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)