Cherry Blossoms on Naka-no-chô in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Naka-no-chô sakura no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)

「東都名所　吉原仲の町桜之図」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.2 x 33.5 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3207.2

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #72.12, pl. 695; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #72.12

DescriptionSakai dates the first edition of the series to about 1839–42 and the second to 1843–47.

Signed Unsigned
無款

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極