Live Auction 12020Aesthetic Intuition: Collecting Japanese Art in Post-War London
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Lot 87 The Property of an American Collector

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Nettle Tree, Oji (Oji Shozoku-enoki omisoka no kitsunebi)

Closed11 November 2015

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GBP 12,500

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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.)

Specialist note

For a similar impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 11.2212, go to:
www.mfa.org/collections