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Kanbara: Night Snow (Kanbara, yoru no yuki), second state, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 蒲原 夜之雪」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833–34 (Tenpô 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.6 x 37.5 cm (9 11/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5032
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 176; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #55.16
DescriptionNo. 16 in the series, second state (sky dark at horizon, no lines in knees of figure at right).

MFA impressions:
First state: 11.26110, *11.38911 (deaccessioned in 2012), 21.5031
Second state: *06.1183 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.17295, 11.25156, 11.30429, 21.5032, 42.566, 2009.2411.16
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.