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Kinryûzan Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan), The Sumida River (Sumidagawa), Flower Garden at Mukôjima (Mukôjima hanayashiki), Mimeguri, The Gate of the Thunder God (Kaminarimon), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)


「江戸名所張交図会」「浅草金竜山」「すみだ川」「向島花屋舗」「三囲」「雷門」
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); 35.6 x 24.7 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.54.13
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.1, pls. 106 (uncut sheet, full color) and 107 (uncut sheet, blue); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #8.1; Tanba 1965, #107 (uncut sheet); Matsuki 1939, #584 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionSheet of five pictures showing Asakusa (TR), Sumidagawa (BR), Mukôjima (BL), Mimeguri (TL), Kaminarimon (C).

MFA impressions: 21.8868 (Mimeguri, blue), 21.8869 (Mimeguri, color), 21.8870 (Asakusa, blue), 21.8871 (Asakusa, color), 21.8877 (Mukôjima), 21.8878 (Sumidagawa), RES.54.13 (uncut sheet)
Signed Hiroshige (on Raimon)
広重
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)