Dewa Province: Mogami River, A Perspective View of Mount Gassan (Dewa, Mogamigawa, Gassan enbô), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Dewa Province: Mogami River, A Perspective View of Mount Gassan (Dewa, Mogamigawa, Gassan enbô), 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　出羽　最上川　月山遠望」

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 Number06.823.29

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #29; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.45

DescriptionNo. 29 (Tôsandô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.29 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17054, 11.36911, 21.8813 (fragment), 52.1413

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