Scenery of the Slope at Kanaya on the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô chû Kanaya saka shôkei)

「東海道中金谷坂勝景」

Utagawa Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1873)
Publisher: Kagiya Shôbei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Komakichi (Hori Koma, Hori Tashichi) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1863 (Bunkyû 3), 2nd month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.1 × 74.5 cm (14 3/16 × 29 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Source unidentified

Accession Number2009.5011.23a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 1 (1935), pp. 66-7

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 Gountei Sadahide ga (on right sheet), Sadahide ga (on center and left sheets)
五雲亭貞秀画　貞秀画

Marks Censor's seal: Boar 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ôta Tashichi
改印：亥二改
彫師：彫太田多七