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Clearing Weather at Enoshima: Koyurugi Strand and Morokoshigahara (Enoshima seiran, Koyurugi no iso, Morokoshigahara), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), 2nd edition


「名所八景 江ノ島晴嵐 小ゆるきの礒 もろこしが原」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.6 x 36.2 cm (9 5/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession NumberRES.54.111
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #38
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1069 (first edition), 49.137, RES.54.111 (both second edition)

In the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Signed Toyokuni hitsu
豊国筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Utagawa
改印:極
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)