Emonzaka Slope of New Yoshiwara Under Autumn Moon, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital

1835–39

Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 14 × 5 in. (35.6 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line: Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
Accession Number: 1973.42.24
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Frances Gaylord Smith (Mrs. George T. Smith) Collection; by descent to nephew Gaylord Donnelley (1910–1992) and Dorothy Ranney Donnelley (1910–2002); loaned in 1969, and given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1973

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Shōgen-dō 松原堂 (rectangular, intaglio, centre left after the signature)\r\nCensor’s seal mark: Kiwame 極 (square, relief, centre left after the signature)\r\n

Inscriptions

Tōto Meisho: Shin-yoshiwara Emon-zaka no Shūgetsu 東都名所　新吉原衣紋坂秋月 (upper left)

Signed

“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (centre left)

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