Ama no Hashidate in Tango Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in Sixty-odd Provinces

12th month, 1853

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Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: 134 1/4 × 91 5/16 in. (341 × 232 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1950.452
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1950; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Censor seal Aratame 改 (round, relief, upper right margin)\r\nOther three seals at low left margin have been mostly cut off and unable to read but from other sources the following information could be applied to this print:\r\nPublisher's seal mark: Koshihei 越平 (oval, relief, lower left margin) & Hori Sōji ホリ宗二 (rectangular, relief, lower left margin)\r\nCensor's seal marks: Ushi jū-ni 丑十二 (12th month 1853, year of the ox) (oval, relief, lower left margin)\r\nCollector’s seal (?) Yoshi 由 (lower left)\r\n

Inscriptions

Rokujū yo-shū meisho zue: Tango Ama no Hashidate 六十余州名所図会　丹後　天の橋立 (upper right)\r\nSanjū-hachi 三十八 (No. 38) (lower right margin)\r\n

Signed

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

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