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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Complete View of Takanawa (Takanawa zenzu) | Edo period, 19th century

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Property from a Private Collector

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) 

Complete View of Takanawa (Takanawa zenzu)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, triptych, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho), the left sheet signed Oju Ichiryusai Hiroshige ga [By special request, pictured by Ichiryusai Hiroshige ga], censor's seal kiwame, published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido), circa 1832-34


Vertical oban triptych: each sheet approx. 37.4 x 25.6 cm., 14¾ x 10⅛ in.

For another example of the same print in the collection of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Massachusetts, accession number MH 1973.278a.Q.RII, go to: 

https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+1973.278a.Q.RII


For a further example of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston, accession number 06.1191a-c, go to: 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/177313