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Foreign Building on the Shoreline in Yokohama (Yokohama kaigan ijinkan no zu)

Foreign Building on the Shoreline in Yokohama (Yokohama kaigan ijinkan no zu)

「横濱海岸異人舘之図」

Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Masadaya Heikichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1870 (Meiji 3), 6th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.6 x 72.6 cm (14 x 28 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection

Accession Number2000.486a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #7; Sakamoto & Toeda, Nihon no bijutsu #328 (1993), #30

Signed Hiroshige hitsu (on right and left sheets)
広重筆

Marks Censor's seal: Horse 6 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：午六改
彫師：なし

ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)