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Shôno: Driving Rain (Shôno, hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 庄野 白雨」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.1 × 35.4 cm (9 1/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession NumberRES.51.73
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #110; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.46
DescriptionNo. 46 in the series.

MFA impressions: 11.17407, 11.23102, 11.25063, 11.26133, 11.30169, 11.38856, 21.5075, RES.51.73, 2009.2411.46
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
Provenance1954, gift of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes to the MFA.