Hiroshige: The Hotohoto festivitiesHiroshige: The Hotohoto festivities
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

A group of disguised women during the Hotohoto festivities, walking under high trees in the January mist near Izumo shrine.

Title: Izumo, Taisha, Hotohoto no zu (Izumo Province, Grand Shrine, the Hotohoto Festival)

Series: Rokujû-yoshû meisho-zue (Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces)

Signature: Hiroshige hitsu

Block cutter: Hori Sennosuke (Sugawa Sennosuke)

Publisher: Koshimura-ya Heisuke (Koshi-hei), Edo

Censor: Aratame

Date: 1853, 12th month

Size: Vertical Ôban, 34,2 x 22,5 cm (image)

Good impression of a later edition, in fresh colours. Full margins, old backing, along right margin a number of small pinholes; staining in laft and upper margins.Overall good condition.

Suzuki/Ôkubo, No. 42; Jansen, No. 42. For a similar impression and colour state compare Waseda 201-3677, MFA Boston, 11.16864 and Chazen Museum of Art, No. 1984.671

€ 850,-

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