Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
A row of thatched houses on a road, from which meibutsu - local specialities - are sold. Pines and maples with red autumn foliage are lining the road.
Title: Fujikawa - Yamanaka (or Sanchû) tateba - Meibutsu ...(Fujikawa, in the middle of the mountains, famous specialities...) - Station no. 37
Series: Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi (The Tokaido Road - The 53 Stations) - the so-called Tsutaya or Kichizô Tokaido
Signature: Hiroshige ga
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô), Edo
Censors: Mera, Murata
Date: c.1847-50
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Horizontal Chûban, 16.5 x 22.5 cm (image)
Excellent impression and colours. Unbacked, wide margins, with very nice bokashi and visible wood-grain. Some tiny stitching holes in right margin backed from verso, paper in left margin a little thinned, with some small paper damages. Verso a little bit brownstained and backed in corners. Minor staining and soiling. Overall very good condition. A very well nuanced impression, rarely seen with this image.
Cf. MFA Boston, Bigelow Coll., 11.26179 a.o.; British Museum 1915,0823,0.153.37; Honolulu Museum of Art, Michener Coll., 22672; MAK Vienna BI 24645-37.
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