Fireworks at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku hanabi), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho no uchi)

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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Fireworks at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku hanabi), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho no uchi)

「江戸名所之内　両国花火」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1832–34 (Tenpô 3–5)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.6 x 37.3 cm (10 1/16 x 14 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number11.1985

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.5, pl. 532; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 246, horizontal ôban #21.5; Matsuki 1939, #152

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.1942, *11.1985 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.10054

All three MFA impressions are late printings, with the upper cloud band missing and the lower cloud band recut.

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極