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Evening Bell at Kamakura: Mountains of Awa Province Seen from Tsurugaoka (Kamakura banshô, Tsurugaoka yori Bôshû yama no zu), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), 2nd edition


「名所八景 鎌倉晩鐘 鶴ヶ岡より房州山の図」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.4 x 35.8 cm (9 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—MFA Chinese Expedition, 1923-24
Accession NumberRES.54.171
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #407; Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #288
DescriptionMFA impressions: 50.4049, RES.54.171 (both second edition)

In the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Signed Toyokuni hitsu
豊国筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Utagawa
改印:極