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Descending Geese at Miho: Kiyomizu Temple of Suruga Province, with a Distant View of Yoshiwara (Miho rakugan, Sunshû Kiyomizudera Yoshiwara miru enkei), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), 2nd edition


「名所八景 三保落雁 駿州清水寺吉原見遠景」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.5 x 36.1 cm (9 1/4 x 14 3/16 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.54.110
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionIn the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Signed Toyokuni hitsu
豊国筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Utagawa
改印:極
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)