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Benten Shrine at Susaki (Susaki Benten hokora), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)


江戸名所張交図会 「洲崎弁天祠」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamadaya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (aizuri-e); color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 14.3 x 16.6 cm (5 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8851
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.3, pls. 110 (uncut sheet, full color, pink background), 111 (uncut sheet, blue); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #08.03; Matsuki 1939, #589 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of four pictures showing Susaki (TR), Ochanomizu (BR), Shiba Shinmei (BC), Atagoyama (L)

MFA impressions: 21.8851 (Susaki, blue), 21.8852 (Susaki, color), RES.54.9 (intact sheet)
Signed (this picture unsigned)
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.