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Descending Geese at Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no rakugan), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)


「江戸八景 不忍の落雁」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 32 x 21.7 cm (12 5/8 x 8 9/16 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.54.46
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #480.5; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 246.1.1
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)