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Ôtsu, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road


東海道五十三次 「大津」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal kokonotsugiri (one-ninth ôban); 13.2 x 18 cm (5 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.304
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Toraya, Atsumeru tanoshimi (Yoshida coll., 2012), p. 96; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #3.59
DescriptionStation 54, from a later edition without poems.
For an almost-complete set of this edition, bound as an album, see 1997.683 .
MFA impressions: First edition, with kyôka poems: 21.10290
Later edition: 21.10340, 34.304
Signed Gakyôjin Hokusai ga
画狂人北斎画
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)