Hiroshige: Snow in Suzaki
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Sunrise on a clear New Year's morning with snow in Suzaki at Edo Bay. Under the pine trees to the left the Susaki Benten Shrine.

Title: Yuki no asa Suzaki hinode (Sunrise at snow in Suzaki).

Series: Tôto meisho (Famous places in the eastern capital, i.e. Edo)

Signature: Hiroshige ga

Publisher: not indicated

Censor: Hama

Date: C. 1843-46

Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Horizontal Ôban, 24.5 x 36.2 cm (overall)

A very rare print. Very good impression and colours. Unbacked, wide margins. Both upper corners with tears, a few tiny holes, mostly at margins. Restored with some retouching. Overall good condition. A colour, resp. block variant (without dark grey plate in the trees), cf. MFA Boston RES.49.178. See also Tamba Tsuneo, The Art of Hiroshige, Tokyo 1965, no. 224 and ill. (with publisher's seal of Ezakiya in left margin).

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