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No. 6: Shimada, Kanaya, Nissaka, from the series Cutout Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô harimaze zue)


東海道張交図絵 「東海六 島田 金谷 日坂」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban (harimaze); 36.5 × 25.4 cm (14 3/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession NumberRES.49.11
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #46.06
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17219 (uncut sheet, Ibaya edition), 54.1542 (Kanaya), RES.49.11 (uncut sheet, reprint edition with no publisher's mark)
Signed Hiroshige hitsu (on Shimada picture)
広重筆
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: nine petals
改印:衣笠、渡辺
彫師:なし
Provenance1949, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: February 10, 1949)