Nissaka: Sayo Mountain Pass (Nissaka, Sayo no nakayama), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Nissaka: Sayo Mountain Pass (Nissaka, Sayo no nakayama), 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　日坂　佐夜之中山」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.8 x 35.6 cm (9 x 14 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1308

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.26

DescriptionNo. 26 in the series; co-published by Hôeidô and Senkakudô.

MFA impressions: *06.1308 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.1463 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.1955 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2093 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17274 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.26119, 11.38893, *11.38894 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.41829, 21.5040, 2009.2411.26

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印：（極）

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross