Souvenirs of the Kinryûzan Temple at Asakusa (Asakausa Kinryûzan meibutsu), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Harimaze Kôto meisho)

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Souvenirs of the Kinryûzan Temple at Asakusa (Asakausa Kinryûzan meibutsu), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Harimaze Kôto meisho)

張混江都名所　「浅草金竜山　名物」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 2nd month

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

Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 10.5 x 10 cm (4 1/8 x 3 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8829

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #9.1, pl. 87 (uncut sheet); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, vertical ôban #51.1; Matsuki 1939, #577 (uncut sheet)

DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures including 21.8826 (Mimeguri, bottom right), 21.8827 (Goten-yama, top left), 21.8828 (Ryôgoku Bridge, top right) and 21.8829 (Asakusa, center).

Signed (this picture unsigned)