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Descending Geese at Katada (Katada no rakugan), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)


「近江八景之内 堅田落雁」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.5 x 35.1 cm (8 7/8 x 13 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1683
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #73; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #28.3
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1683, 11.17229, 21.6803, 21.6804

Poem translated in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
InscriptionsPoem: Mine amata/ koete koshiji ni/ mazu chikaki/ Katada ni nabiki/ otsuru karigane
峯あまた こへて越路に まつちかき 堅田になびき おつるかりかね
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross