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The Most Famous View in Tokyo: Brick [Buildings] along the Ginza (Tôkyô dai-ichi meisho Ginza-dôri rengaseki no zu)


「東京第弌名所銀座通煉瓦石之圖」
Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Gusokuya Kahei (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1874 (Meiji 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 x 73.1 cm (14 9/16 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Accession Number2000.388a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Morse, ed., Reinventing Tokyo (2012), #10; Swinton, Terrific Tokyo (1999), #19
Signed Ôju Hiroshige hitsu
応需広重筆
ProvenancePrevious to 2000, purchased by Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)