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Kinryûzan Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryûzan), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 浅草金龍山」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Nunokichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 36.4 × 24 cm (14 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1371
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #70.1, pl. 642; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #68.1; Matsuki 1939, #73
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.591 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.1996, 21.9781, 2016.1371
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
Unidentified collector's seal on verso: origami crane
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceJustine Frances Lewis Keidel (d. 2003), Baltimore, MD; 2003, bequeathed by Justine Frances Lewis Keidel to her daughter, Anne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)