Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 浅草金龍山」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.2 x 36.4 cm (9 1/8 x 14 1/3 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.54.119
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #79.2, pl. 808 (with rain); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.2; Matsuki 1939, #198
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.9934 (with rain), RES.54.119 (without rain)
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)