Scattered Pines, Tone River (Tonegawa Barabara-matsu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Scattered Pines, Tone River (Tonegawa Barabara-matsu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

「名所江戸百景　利ね川ばらばらまつ」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1856 (Ansei 3), 8th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34 x 22.4 cm (13 3/8 x 8 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1090

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.77, pls. 279-282; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #71; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.76

DescriptionNo. 071 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: *06.1090 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.26351, 11.35839, 11.36876.47, 11.45647, 21.9473

夏の部。利根川は関東一の名流で坂東太郎の異名を持つ。ばらばら松は広重の『絵本江戸土産』にも登場するが、場所は諸説ある。川魚を獲る投網と、その勢いに驚くかのように飛ぶ白鷺の姿を描く。 -- 藤澤紫Ｋ

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Dragon 8; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印：（改、辰八）
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross