Takanawa, Iris at the Village of Horikiri (Horikiri no sato hana shôbu), Pool at the Three Forks of the River at Nakasu (Nakasu Mitsumata Wakarenofuchi), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)

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Takanawa, Iris at the Village of Horikiri (Horikiri no sato hana shôbu), Pool at the Three Forks of the River at Nakasu (Nakasu Mitsumata Wakarenofuchi), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)

「江戸名所張交図会」「高輪」「堀切之里花菖蒲」「中洲三つ俣分の淵」

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 24.6 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.54.15

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.10, pl. 120 (uncut sheet, full color; blue version not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, vertical ôban #08.10; Matsuki 1939, #582 (uncut sheet)

DescriptionSheet of three pictures showing Takanawa (TR), Horikiri (TL), Nakasu (B).

MFA impressions: 21.8863 (Nakasu, blue), 21.8864 (Takanawa, blue), 21.8865 (Takanawa, color), 21.8875 (Horikiri, blue), RES.54.15 (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)