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No. 47, On the Hill outside the Sakurada Gate (Sakurada-soto jô), from the series Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei)


「江戸名所四十八景 四十七 桜田外上」
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 24.7 × 18.3 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1242
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #16-47
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1750 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.20523, 11.26430, 2011.975.101, 2016.1242
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 1 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:酉正改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)