Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Travellers in the deep Yamabushi valley of the Tsuyama River (aka Yoshiigawa) fighting their way through a heavy rain storm.
Title: Mimasaka, Yamabushidani (Mimasaka Province, Yamabushi Valley)
Series: Rokujû-yoshû meisho-zue (Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces)
Signature: Hiroshige hitsu
Publisher: Koshimura-ya Heisuke (Koshi-hei), Edo
Censor: Aratame
Date: 1853, 12th month
Size: Vertical Ôban, 34,5 x 22,9 cm (image)
Very good impression and fresh colours. Margins partly replaced and restored, paper in margins and verso unevenly toned in in some parts. Professional restorations and retouches.
Ill. in Suzuki/Ôkubo, No. 46; Jansen, No. 46. Cf. MFA Boston, Bigelow Coll., No. 11.17128 a.o.; Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), P.75.51.253
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