Mount Hira, from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei no uchi)

「近江八景の内　比良」

Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1917 (Taishô 6), May

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal aiban; 22.1 x 32 cm (8 11/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group

Accession Number35.1861

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), fig. 25; Smith, The J. Print since 1900 (1983), #41b, photo p. 57

DescriptionEdition: 48/200.

Signed Shinsui (in block)
深水

ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)