Hitachi Province: Daijingû Shrine in Kashima (Hitachi, Kashima, Daijingû), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Hitachi Province: Daijingû Shrine in Kashima (Hitachi, Kashima, Daijingû), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

「六十余州名所図絵　常陸　鹿嶋太神宮」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 8th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 25 cm (14 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.823.21

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #21; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.58

DescriptionNo. 21 (Tôkaidô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.21 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.16885, *11.36886 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.36940

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Ox 8
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take
改印：衣笠、村田、丑八
彫師：彫竹

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross