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The Benten Shrine at Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu no ike Benten hokora), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 不忍之池弁天祠」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.8 x 37.8 cm (10 3/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2009.5007.9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #58.5, pl. 468; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #11.7; Matsuki 1939, #142
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.785, 21.8917, 2009.5007.9

The right edge of this impression is concealed by the album binding.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極