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Moon Viewing at Takanawa on the Night of the Twenty-sixth (Takanawa Nijûrokuya), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 高輪廿六夜」
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 36.3 cm (9 1/8 x 14 1/4 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.54.123
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #79.15, pl. 821; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #09.20
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.9943, RES.54.123
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
彫師:なし
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)