Panoramic View from the Precincts of the Kanda Myôjin Shrine (Kanda Myôjin keidai chôbô), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

「江戸名所　神田明神境内眺望」

Japanese

Edo period

1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th month

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.2 x 36.6 cm (9 1/8 x 14 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.623

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #62.5, pl. 740; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #16.5

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.10019, 49.623

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、寅八
彫師：なし

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)