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Crowd at the Year-end Fair at Kinryûzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan toshi no ichi gunshû), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 浅草金龍山年之市群集」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–38 (Tenpô 3–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.4 x 38.3 cm (9 5/8 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.77
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.1, pl. 478; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.01; Tanba 1965, #191; Matsuki 1939, #26
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1326 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.24924, 11.39275, 11.39276, 20.77, 21.9866
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)