The Bonfire Shrine of Oki, from the series Views of Famous Places in Sixty-odd Provinces

12th month, 1853

Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 13 1/2 × 8 7/8 in. (34.3 × 22.5 cm)
Credit Line: Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
Accession Number: 1973.42.26
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: Koshihei 越平 (oval, relief, lower left margin)\r\nCarver’s seal: Hori Kosen 彫小仙 (rectangular, relief, lower left margin after the publisher’s seal)\r\nCensor’s seal marks: Ushi jū-ni 丑十二 (12th month 1853, year of the ox) (oval, relief, lower left margin) & Aratame 改 (round, relief, upper right margin)\r\n

Inscriptions

Rokujū yo-shū meisho zue: Oki Takibi no Yashiro 六十余州名所図会　隠岐焚火の社 (upper right)

Signed

“Hiroshige hitsu” (“brushed by Hiroshige”) 廣重筆 (lower left)

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