Fujieda: Changing Porters and Horses (Fujieda, jinba tsugitate), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Fujieda: Changing Porters and Horses (Fujieda, jinba tsugitate), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô

「東海道五十三次之内　藤枝　人馬継立」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.8 x 35.3 cm (9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number11.2009

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.23

DescriptionNo. 23 in the series; co-published by Hôeidô and Senkakudô.

MFA impressions: *06.1413 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2009 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17267 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.20207, 11.26116, 11.30163, 11.38901, 21.5035, 2009.2411.23

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in left margin, cut off of this impression)
改印：（極）