Akabane Bridge and Suiten Shrine (Akabane Suitengû), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

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Akabane Bridge and Suiten Shrine (Akabane Suitengû), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

「江戸名所　赤羽根水天宮」

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 x 36 cm (9 1/16 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.54.121

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #79.1, pl. 807; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.1; Matsuki 1939, #197

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1202 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2183 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9948, RES.54.121

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)