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Cherry Blossoms at Night in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara yozakura no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 吉原夜桜ノ図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–38 (Tenpô 6–9)

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 Number2009.5007.10
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #55.15, pl. 779; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #65.15; Matsuki 1939, #40
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1483 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.24940, 21.9898, 2009.5007.10

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