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Fireworks at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgokubashi hanabi no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 両国橋花火之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–38 (Tenpô 6–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23 x 36 cm (9 1/16 x 14 3/16 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.54.185
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.16, pls. 780-781; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.16; Matsuki 1939, #35
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1503, *11.2196 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9912, 21.9913, RES.54.185
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極