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On Top of Mount Atago in Shiba (Shiba Atago sanjô no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 芝愛宕山上之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–38 (Tenpô 3–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.5 x 38 cm (9 2/3 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.73
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.15, pl. 491; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #66.10; Matsuki 1939, #29
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.2554 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2077 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2194 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.24928 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.39262, 11.39263, 20.73, 21.9863, 21.9864
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)