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Scenery of the Tôkaidô Road, from Nihonbashi to Arai (Tôkaidô shôkei Nihonbashi yori Arai made)


「東海道勝景従日本橋至荒井」
Utagawa Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1873)
Publisher: Iseya Tôkichi (Daikyôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.1 × 73.5 cm (14 3/16 × 28 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2009.5011.1a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionRight half of hexaptych.
Mounted in an album of 55 prints with the hand-written title "The Road to the Capital, Spring 1863" (Bunkyû san haru no miyako michi).
画帳 「文久三春の都路」

MFA impressions: 11.16235VR (11.16235-6, 11.16239-42; complete hexaptych), 11.37395a-c (left half only), *11.37411a-b (two right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2019), 2009.5011.1a-c (right half only)
Signed Gountei Sadahide ga (on each sheet)
五雲亭貞秀画
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥四改
彫師:なし