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No. 1, Nihonbashi: Snowy Morning (Nihonbashi, yuki no akebono), from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road (here called Kisokaidô tsuzuki no ichi)


「木曾街道続ノ壱 日本橋 雪之曙」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–38 (Tenpô 6–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 36.4 cm (9 13/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4792
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Edo-Tokyo Museum, Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #230; Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #92; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #33.01
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.25640, 21.4792, 21.4793
Signed Eisen ga
英泉画
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.