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Moon Viewing at Takanawa on the Night of the Twenty-sixth (Takanawa Nijûrokuya no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo, Newly Selected (Shinsen Edo meisho)


「新撰江戸名所 高輪廿六夜之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22 x 34.8 cm (8 11/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9974
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #66.12, pl. 639; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #43.12; Matsuki 1939, #283
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1648, 21.9974

Publisher's mark on lanterns within picture.
Signed Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga
一立斎広重画
ProvenanceMay 1915, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.