Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858)
Lot 78

Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858)

Shono: Driving Rain

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GBP 3,250

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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858)
Shono: Driving Rain
Shono: Driving Rain (Shono, hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tokaido or Great Tokaido, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1833-34
Horizontal oban (25.4 x 37.9 cm.)

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For other impressions of this design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/56916

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/sh%C3%B4no-driving-rain-sh%C3%B4no-hakuu-from-the-series-fifty-three-stations-of-the-t%C3%B4kaid%C3%B4-road-t%C3%B4kaid%C3%B4-goj%C3%BBsan-tsugi-no-uchi-also-known-as-the-first-t%C3%B4kaid%C3%B4-or-great-t%C3%B4kaid%C3%B4-232754