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Benten Shrine at Susaki (Susaki Benten hokora), Ochanomizu, Festival of the Shiba Shinmei Shrine (Shiba Shinmei matsuri), Messenger of Bishamon at Mount Atago (Atagoyama Bishamon no tsukai), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)


「江戸名所張交図会」「洲崎弁天祠」「御茶之水」「芝神明祭」「愛宕山毘沙門使」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban (harimaze); 35.5 x 24.6 cm (14 x 9 11/16 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 NumberRES.54.9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.3, pls. 110 (uncut sheet, full color, pink background) and 111 (uncut sheet, blue); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #8.3; Matsuki 1939, #589
DescriptionSheet of four pictures showing Susaki (TR), Ochanomizu (BR), Shiba Shinmei (BC), Atagoyama (L).

MFA impressions: 21.8851 (Susaki, blue), 21.8852 (Susaki, color), RES.54.9 (uncut sheet)
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳七
彫師:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)