Sheet 1, Nihonbashi to Yui, from the series Famous Places of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô in Continuing Pictures (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi meisho tsuzuki-e)

東海道五十三次名所続画　一　日本橋から由井へ

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 33.6 × 23.1 cm (13 1/4 × 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Anonymous gift

Accession NumberRES.49.6

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 231, jûnibangiri #6 (?); Uchida, p. 25

DescriptionMFA impressions: 50.665, RES.49.6

Signed (Hiroshige hitsu, in top margin with title, cut off of this impression)
（広重筆）

Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし

Provenance1949, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: February 10, 1949)