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Aki Province: Miyajima, cut from sheet 15 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)


国尽張交図会 十五 「安芸 宮島」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 17.8 x 11.7 cm (7 x 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper
Accession Number54.1543
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiroshige Mus., Ena, Meisho no hensen (203), #2-15; Uragami, Ukiyo-e Utagawa-ha san kyoshô ten (exh. cat., 1991), #95; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #19.15
DescriptionFrom a sheet of four pictures showing Bingo, Nagato, Suo, and Aki provinces.

From the same sheet: 21.8763 (Bingo), 54.1543 (Aki)
Signed (this picture unsigned)
Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)