Ukiyo-e Prints

浮世絵版画

UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III &

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE

三代歌川豊国 & 歌川広重

さんだい.うたがわ.とよくに & うたがわ.ひろしげ

Series: A Selection of Ten Flowers

當盛十花選

Subject: Hydrangea

Ajisai

 (紫陽花 or あじさい)

 Actors (as identified in a Boston Museum of Fine Arts web site):

Bandō Takesaburō I and Nakamura Tsuruzō I

The accession number of the copy in the MFA is 11.29246

Print Size: 14 1/4" X 9 1/2"

Publisher: Ebisuya Shoshichi

恵比須屋庄七

えびすやしようしち

Date: 1854, 6th Month

Kaei 7

嘉永7

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THANKS H!

A full set of these prints is in the collection of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.

Publisher:

Ebisu-ya Shoshichi

Above is a detail from another print from the early 1830s

by Hiroshige in which a hydrangea features prominently.