Live Auction 13279Asian 20th Century Art (Day Sale) Including a Selection of Japanese Woodblock Prints from Private Collections
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)
Lot 496 A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF PRINTS FORMED IN THE 1900S

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)

No. 17, Yui: The Frightful Satta Pass (Yui, Satta-mine oya shirazu)

Closed25 November 2018

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)
No. 17, Yui: The Frightful Satta Pass (Yui, Satta-mine oya shirazu)
From the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan tsugi meisho zue)
Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga
Published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido)
Sealed kiwame (approved)
Date seal: Hare 7 (7/1855)
Vertical oban: 37 x 25.5 cm. (14 5/8 x 10 in.)

Specialist note

The Satta Pass was constructed by the Shogunate in 1655 to improve the journey along a part of the Tokaido which previously would have required travelling along the treacherous rocky shoreline at low tide, shown at the base of the cliffs in this print. Mount Fuji can be seen rising up in the distance, partially obscured by a group of windswept trees clinging to the rock edge. Travellers are shown ascending the long slope up the cliff and ships are along the coastline.

For the same print in The British Museum, accession number 1915,0823,0.738, go to: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research.aspx

For the same print in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 00.1202, go to: https://www.mfa.org/collections/search