Buzen Province: The Passage Under the Rakan Monastery (Buzen, Rakan-ji shita michi), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue)

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Buzen Province: The Passage Under the Rakan Monastery (Buzen, Rakan-ji shita michi), 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　豊前　羅漢時下道」

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

Japanese

Edo period

1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 11th 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 Number06.823.60

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #61; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.59

DescriptionNo. 61 (Saikaidô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.60 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17027, 11.26259, *11.36924 (deaccessioned in 2012)

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger 11
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、寅十一
彫師：なし

Provenance1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935) to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)