Fragment cut from: No. 7, Strong Wind on Shin-Ôhashi Bridge (Shin-Ôhashi no ôkaze), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi)

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Fragment cut from: No. 7, Strong Wind on Shin-Ôhashi Bridge (Shin-Ôhashi no ôkaze), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi)

江戸名所道化尽　七　新大橋の大風　（断簡）

Utagawa Hirokage (Japanese, active 1855–1865)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Koizumi Kanegorô (Hori Kane) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1859 (Ansei 6), 4th month

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

Dimensions Fragment of vertical ôban; 25.2 × 17.7 cm (9 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse

Accession Number2011.975.106

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Osaka City Mus., Edo no giga (2018), #147

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16966, 11.16967, 11.39889, 11.45389.27, *11.45390.7 (deaccessioned in 2019), 2011.975.106 (fragment)

Album entitled Genji gajô: 2011.975.1-.108
源氏画帖

2011.975.1 to .54: Kunisada, The Color Print Contest of a Modern Genji (Ima Genji nishiki-e awase), complete chûban series
2011.975.55 to .102: Hiroshige II, Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei), complete chûban series
2011.975.103 to .108: Hirokage, fragments of six heavily trimmed ôban prints from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi)

Signed Hirokage ga
広景画

Marks Censor's seal: Goat 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Kane
改印：未四改
彫師：彫工兼

ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 23, 2011)