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Crossing the Ôi River with Platforms (Ôikawa undai watari no zu)

Crossing the Ôi River with Platforms (Ôikawa undai watari no zu)

「大井川運台渡之図」

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.1 × 75.7 cm (14 3/16 × 29 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Source unidentified

Accession Number2009.5011.22a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 1 (1935), pp. 64-5

DescriptionMounted in an album of 55 prints with the hand-written title "The Road to the Capital, Spring 1863" (Bunkyû san haru no miyako michi).
画帳　「文久三春の都路」

Signed Hiroshige hitsu (on left sheet only)
広重筆

Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：亥四改
彫師：なし