True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Kaigandôri Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandôri ijinkan no shinzu)

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True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Kaigandôri Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandôri ijinkan no shinzu)

「漠濱波止場ヨリ海岸通異人舘真圖」

Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Kamekichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

about 1875 (Meiji 8)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 x 74.4 cm (14 9/16 x 29 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection

Accession Number2000.506a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #8; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #20, no photo; Sakamoto & Toeda, Nihon no bijutsu #328 (1993), #28; Konishi, Nishiki-e bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 5 (1977), pp. 58-9; Ukiyo-e taikei 12 (1976), #238-240

Signed Ôju Hiroshige hitsu (on left sheet)
応需広重筆

Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし

Inscriptions

ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)