Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858),

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)

Koyo Saruhashi no zu [The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province], woodblock print, signed hiroshige hitsu, sealed Ichiryusai, published by Tsutaya Kichizo
Vertical oban diptych (73.5 x 25.1cm.)

Literature

Sekaiteki kyosho ukiyoe no Hiroshige ten, (exhibition catalogue), (Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1969), no. 171

Exhibited

Sekaiteki kyosho ukiyoe no Hiroshige ten, Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya, 2nd-15th January, 1969

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Lot Essay

For another impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, go to www.mfa.org, accession number 21.5335, for another in the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, go to https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/206709, and for a third in the Tokyo National Museum, go to https://webarchives.tnm.jp/imgsearch/show/C0015247.

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