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Iris at the Village of Horikiri (Horikiri no sato hanashôbu), 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 「堀切之里花菖蒲」
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; 19.1 x 9.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8875
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.10, pl. 120 (uncut sheet, full color; blue version not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, vertical ôban #08.10; Matsuki 1939, #582 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Takanawa (TR), Horikiri (TL), Nakasu (B).

MFA impressions: 21.8863 (Nakasu, blue), 21.8864 (Takanawa, blue), 21.8865 (Takanawa, color), 21.8875 (Horikiri, blue), RES.54.15 (uncut sheet)
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.