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

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Echigo Province: Oyashirazu (Echigo, Oyashirazu), 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　越後　親しらず」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)

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 Number06.823.35

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #35; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.17

DescriptionNo. 35 (Hokurikudô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.35 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.16900, 11.26251, *11.36900 (deaccessioned in 2012)

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