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Nagato Province: Shimonoseki (Nagato, Shimonoseki), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)


「六十余州名所図絵 長門 下の関」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 27 cm (15 1/4 x 10 2/3 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession NumberRES.49.28
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #52; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.48
DescriptionNo. 52 (Sanyôdô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.51 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17032, *11.36936 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.36941, 21.8537, RES.49.28 (key block)
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
廣重筆
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 3
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰三
彫師:なし
Provenance1949, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: February 10, 1949)