UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)
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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fujimi hyakuza)

Closed12 July 2018

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GBP 1,500

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fujimi hyakuza)
Woodblock printed book, one volume complete
Comprising two prefaces on four pages signed Ryuryusenka and Ryusai (Hiroshige), dated Ansei 6 (1859), followed by 20 double-page colour illustrations and one single-page illustration of landscapes featuring Mount Fuji, signed on last sheet Hiroshige hitsu, published by Eirakuya Toshiro, pale yellow covers with hand-written title slip
22.4 x 15.5 cm.

Drouot, Paris, 3rd April 1957

Specialist note

For the same book in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York, accession number 2013.695, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection