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Returning Sails at Kanazawa: View of Nojima from Seto Bridge (Kanazawa kihan, Setobashi yori Nojima no zu), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), 2nd edition


「名所八景 金沢帰帆 従瀬戸橋野島之図」
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.7 x 36.2 cm (9 5/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession NumberRES.54.112
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionMFA impressions: 53.449 (first edition), RES.54.112 (second edition)

In the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Signed Toyokuni hitsu
豊国筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Utagawa
改印:極
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)