Live Auction 13127Art of Japan
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Lot 98 From a Private Swiss Collection

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival

Closed8 December 2016

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GBP 4,750

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival
Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival (Askusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Totoya Eikichi, 11th month, 1857
Vertical oban (35.2 x 23.5 cm.)

Specialist note

For other impressions of the same design in museum collections go to:
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/asakusa-ricefields-and-torinomachi-festival-askusa-tanbo-torinomachi-m%C3%B4de-from-the-series-one-hundred-famous-views-of-edo-meisho-edo-hyakkei-230563 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 18.26)
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=786968&partId=1 (British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.664)