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New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Nettle Tree, Oji (Oji Shozoku-enoki omisoka no kitsunebi)
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Nettle Tree, Oji (Oji Shozoku-enoki omisoka no kitsunebi)
Woodblock print, from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One hundred views of famous places of Edo), signed Hiroshige ga and published by Uoya Eikichi, 9th month 1857
Oban tate-e (37.2 x 25.8 cm.)
New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Nettle Tree, Oji (Oji Shozoku-enoki omisoka no kitsunebi)
Woodblock print, from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One hundred views of famous places of Edo), signed Hiroshige ga and published by Uoya Eikichi, 9th month 1857
Oban tate-e (37.2 x 25.8 cm.)
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