No. 53 - Kusatsu: Yabase Crossing and View of Lake Biwa (Kusatsu, Yabase no watashiguchi, Biwa-ko fûkei), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Reisho Tôkaidô – Works

No. 53 - Kusatsu: Yabase Crossing and View of Lake Biwa (Kusatsu, Yabase no watashiguchi, Biwa-ko fûkei), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi), also known as the Reisho Tôkaidô

「東海道　五十三　五十三次　草津　矢ばせの渡口　琵琶湖風景」

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

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

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.5 x 34.5 cm (8 7/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1651

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #53.53

DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1651, 21.5153

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、渡辺
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross