Hiroshige: Harimaze-e - Tôto meisho
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Three views from the Eastern Capital Edo on one sheet. Complete harimaze-e (cut-out picture).

On the left in tanzku format: Matsuchiyama in the snow. Top right in shikishi format: Fishing boats at Tsukudajima. Bottom right in shikishi format: Mount Fuji seen from Ochanomizu.

Titles: Matsuchiyama yukibare no zu (Clearing up after snowfall in Matsuchiyama). Tsukudajima gyôshu (o. isaribune) no zu (Fishing boats at Tsukudajima). Ochanomizu natsu kodachi no zu (Ochanomizu, summer grove, acc. to Honolulu).

Series: No overall title; however the two shikishi pictures each contain a seal-that says “Tôto meisho” (Famous places of the eastern capital).

Signature/seal: Hiroshige ga (on each of the three pictures), each with a different artist’s seal of Hiroshige.

Publisher: Ezakiya Tatsuzô (Etatsu, Sengyokudô), Edo (publisher's mark and "Etatsu han" in the upper margin)

Censorship: Hama (1843-46)

Date: 1843/44 (according to Tamba)

Size: Vertical Ôban, 37,5 x 25,8 cm (overall)

Very good impression and colours. Margins a little bit trimmed at bottom and right. Overall very good condition. Very rarely found as uncut sheet. Another complete copy of this print is illustrated in Tamba Tsuneo, The Art of Hiroshige, Tokyo 1965, p. 191, no. 461, commentary p. 33.
Most collections only have partial images cf. e.g. for Matsuchiyama MFA Boston, Princeton Art Museum, Chazen, Lib. of Congress; for Tsukudajima only MFA Boston, for Ochanomizu only Honolulu. According to Tamba, this series consisted of only five harimaze-e with three images each.

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