Descending Geese (Rakugan) and Returning Sails (Kihan), from the series Fashionable Eight Views (Fûryû hakkei) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Descending Geese (Rakugan) and Returning Sails (Kihan), from the series Fashionable Eight Views (Fûryû hakkei)

Descending Geese (Rakugan) and Returning Sails (Kihan), from the series Fashionable Eight Views (Fûryû hakkei)

「風流近江八景　落雁」　　「風流近江八景　帰帆」

Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.5 x 49.7 cm (14 3/8 x 19 9/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.7473-4

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #102 (left sheet only)

DescriptionDiptych: 21.7473 (left), 21.7474 (right)

Signed Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane Collection (lot 613); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.