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Hida Province: Basket Ferry (Hida, Kagowatashi), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)


「六十余州名所図絵 飛騨 籠わたし」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.5 cm (14 3/16 x 9 2/3 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession NumberRES.53.268
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #24; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.57
DescriptionNo. 24 (Tôsandô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.24 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.860 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17030, 11.17031, *11.36906 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.36907, 21.9525, RES.53.268
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Ox 8
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印:衣笠、村田、丑八
彫師:彫竹
Provenance1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1953)