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Bonito and Saxifrage, from an untitled series known as Large Fish


魚尽くし 鰹
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–33 (Tenpô 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.9 × 35.6 cm (9 7/16 × 14 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1018
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #118.7; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1998), #109; Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #84; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 243, horizontal ôban #91.4?
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.851, 06.1018, 21.9610

Second poem, by Toshihiro (or Nen'an) Machikado, translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997); both poems translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 298.

The first edition of this series was privately printed in the form of a kyôka poetry album in the orihon format, with ten illustrated sheets and four sheets of text only. Soon afterward, the blocks were reused for commercial prints, with the publisher's mark and censor's kiwame seal added (and in a few cases, different poems). One additional design, the trout, was included in the commercial series; and another nine designs were added still later by a different publisher. For a full reproduction and detailed discussion of the first edition, see Mann 2021, pp. 290-311.
Signed Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga
一立斎広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoems by Toshinomori Haruki and Nen'an Machikado
ProvenanceBy 1906, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; March 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)