Wakasa Province: A Fishing Boat Catching Flat-Fish in a Net (Wakasa, Gyosen karei ami), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

「六十余州名所図絵　若狭　漁船鰈網」

Japanese

Edo period

1853 (Kaei 6), 9th 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 Number06.823.30

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #30; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.69

DescriptionNo. 30 (Hokurikudô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.30 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17045, 11.36904

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome, Ox 9
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ko-Sen
改印：浜、馬込、丑九
彫師：彫小仙

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross