Night Viewing of Cherry Blossoms along the Nakano-chō at Shin Yoshiwara, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

8 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (21.6 × 34.3 cm)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Accession Number

1948.90

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Private Collection, New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1948
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Nunokichi 布吉 (rectangular, relief, upper left)

Inscriptions

Tōto meisho: Shin Yoshiwara Nakano-chō yozakura 新吉原仲の町夜ざくら (upper left)\r\nEdo-chō 江戸町 (centre left)\r\n

Signed

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

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