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Benkei Moat outside Sakurada (Soto Sakurada Benkeibori), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 外さくらた弁慶堀」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.3 x 36 cm (9 3/16 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.54.118
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #79.14, pl. 820; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.18.1
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Tanaka
No blockcutter's mark
改印:田中
版元:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)