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The Ferry Crossing at Sakasai (Sakasai no watashi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 逆井(さかさい)のわたし」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 25 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9471
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.46, pls. 212, 213; Smith & Poster, 100 Views (1986), #67; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.45
DescriptionNo. 067 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

MFA impressions: 11.16698, 11.36876.44, 21.9471; and fragments: 21.8817, 21.8818, 21.8819, 21.8820
夏の部。図は江戸と下総を流れる中川にあった逆井の渡しを、亀戸側から描く。手前に白鷺を、対岸には小松菜で有名な西小松川村新町の町並みを配し、遠くには房総半島の山並みを描く。 -- 藤澤紫K
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 2
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、巳二
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMay 1915, 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.