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Snowy Morning in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara yuki no asa), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


東都名所 吉原雪の朝
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.2 x 34 cm (8 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9887
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #54.19 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #64.14; Matsuki 1939, #41
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.379, 21.9887

Title and publisher's mark in right margin, cut off of this impression.
There are two editions of this series, a first edition from the 1830s and a reprint edition with censorship seals of the 1840s.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、渡辺
彫師:なし
ProvenanceFebruary 1916, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.