Bungo Province: Minosaki (Bungo, Minosaki), 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

Bungo Province: Minosaki (Bungo, Minosaki), 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　豊後　箕崎」

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

Japanese

Edo period

1856 (Ansei 3), 4th 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 Number06.823.61

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Jansen, Hiroshige's Journey (2004), #62; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 249, ôban #64.60

DescriptionNo. 62 (Saikaidô group) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.823.61 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17039, 11.26260, *11.36925 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.9540

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 4
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、辰四
彫師：なし

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