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Inside Akiba Shrine, Ukeji (Ukeji Akiba no keidai), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 請地(うけじ)秋葉の境内」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.6 x 24.2 cm (14 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9487
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.18, pls. 153, 154; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #91; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.16
DescriptionNo. 091 (fall section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 06.871, 11.26347, 21.9487, 21.9488, 21.9489, 21.9490, 21.9491, 21.9492, 21.9493, 21.9494, 21.9495
秋の部。向島請地村(むこうじま うけじむら)の秋葉大権現社は火伏せの神で、毎年11月28日の祭礼には多くの人で賑わった。広大な庭園があり、図に描かれる秋の紅葉のほか、春の梅、夏の杜若(かきつばた)等を愛でる人も訪れ、門前には多くの有名料亭が軒をつらねた。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳八
彫師:なし
ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.