The Seacoast at Hoda in Awa Province (Bôshû Hoda no kaigan), from the series Famous Places of Awa, Kazusa, and Shimôsa Provinces (Bôsô Meisho)

「房総名所　房州保田の海岸」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsujiya Yasubei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1852 (Kaei 5)

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

Dimensions Uchiwa-e on horizontal aiban sheet; 22.3 x 29.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number53.502

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 230, fan prints #97.4; Matsuki and Yamada, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige dansen-e (1924), #100

DescriptionAnother print in the series: 53.504, dated 1852 (Kaei 5), 2nd month.

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

Provenance1953, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)