Street Scene at Night

江戸の夜

Japanese

Edo period

1820s (Bunsei era)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 32.5 × 23 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016

Accession Number2016.1301

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Utagawa ha (Kobijutsu special issue 7, 1986), #78 (complete triptych); Ukiyo-e taikei 10 (1976), #s 131-3 (complete triptych)

DescriptionTriptych: 11.15190 (left), 11.40118 (right), 2016.1301 (center); no VR

Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)