Clearing Weather at Awazu (Awazu seiran), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Clearing Weather at Awazu (Awazu seiran), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

「近江八景之内　粟津晴嵐」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.2 x 36.4 cm (9 1/2 x 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.863

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #74; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.1

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.863 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.1019 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17250, 21.6799, 21.6800

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印：（極）

InscriptionsPoem: Kumo harau/ arashi ni tsurete/ momo fune mo/ chi fune mo nami no/ Awazu ni zo yoru
雲はらふ　あらしにつれて　百ふねも　千ふねもなみの　あわ津にそよる

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross