The Messenger of Bishamon on the Third Day of the New Year, an Old Custom at Mount Atago in Shiba (Shiba Atagoyama kitsurei shôgatsu mikka Bishamon no tsukai), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)
 
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
Publisher: Yamadaya Shōjirō
Date: 1853 (Kaei 6), 11th month
Signed: Hiroshige ga 広重画
Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Ox 11
改印：米良、渡辺、丑十一
彫師：なし
Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Horizontal ôban; 9 3/8'' x 14 5/8''
 
 
Catalogue Raisonné: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #84.21, pl. 887; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #19.20
MFA Accession Number: 21.9983