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Moon Viewing at Takanawa on the Night of the Twenty-sixth (Takanawa Nijûrokuya), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 高輪廿六夜」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.8 x 36.8 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9943
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #79.15, pl. 821; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #09.20; Matsuki 1939, #193
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.9943, RES.54.123
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
ProvenanceMay 1917, 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.