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Goyu: Women Stopping Travellers (Goyu, tabibito tomeru onna), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 御油 旅人留女」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.8 x 34.7 cm (8 9/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5061
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.36
DescriptionNo. 36 in the series.

MFA impressions: *11.17277 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.17278, 11.23097, 11.38876, 21.5059, 21.5060, 21.5061, 2009.2411.36
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
ProvenanceNovember 1916, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at the Metzgar sale (lot 134); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.