Returing Sails at Eitai Bridge (Eitai-bashi no kihan), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)

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Returing Sails at Eitai Bridge (Eitai-bashi no kihan), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)

「江戸八景　永代橋の帰帆」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)

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 22.3 cm (12 5/8 x 8 3/4 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.54.49

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #480.8; for others in the series see Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 246.1.1-4

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)