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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom along the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hanazakari), from the series Famous Places of the Eastern Capital (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 隅田川はな盛」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban;: 21.7 x 34.3 cm (8 9/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1506
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #58.8, pl. 471; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #11.10
DescriptionMFA impressions:
First edition, with publisher's mark "Kikakudô" (Sakai pl. 459): 06.2608, 11.41825, 20.45
Second edition, with publisher's mark "Sanoki: (Sakai pl. 471): RES.52.93, RES.54.184
Publisher's mark cut off, all deaccessioned in 2019: *06.1506, *11.2096, *11.2295

Title, censor's seal, and publisher's mark in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross