No. 8, Eight Provinces of the Tôsandô Circuit (Tôsandô hachi-ga-kuni): Ômi, Mino, Hida, and Shinano, from the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

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No. 8, Eight Provinces of the Tôsandô Circuit (Tôsandô hachi-ga-kuni): Ômi, Mino, Hida, and Shinano, from the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)

国尽張交図会　「国尽　八　東山道八ヶ国　近江　美濃　飛騨　信濃」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 12th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban (harimaze); 35.7 x 24.7 cm (14 1/16 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.54.21

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Motegi et al, Musical Instruments (Ôta Memorial Museum, 2005), #73; Hiroshige Mus., Ena, Meisho no hensen (203), #2-8; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), fig. 101; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #19.08

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.8756 (Mino), RES.54.21 (uncut sheet)

Signed Hiroshige hitsu (center panel)
広重筆

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 12
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、村田、子十二
彫師：なし

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)