Autumn Moon at Takanawa (Takanawa no shûgetsu), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hakkei)

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Autumn Moon at Takanawa (Takanawa no shûgetsu), from the series Eight Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hakkei)

名所江戸八景　高輪の秋月

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1844–45 (Kôka 1–2)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 17.8 cm (9 13/16 x 7 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number49.1234

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 237, chûban triptych #1.4; Tanba 1965, #146 (complete triptych); Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #87 (complete triptych)

DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark

Provenance1949, gift of Porter Sargent to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: November 10, 1949)