Live Auction 20214Important Japanese Art
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Lot 34 PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Shono, hakuu (Shono: driving rain)

Closed21 September 2021

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USD 16,250

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Shono, hakuu (Shono: driving rain)
Woodblock print, from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido), signed Hiroshige ga, published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1833-34
Horizontal oban: 9 ½ x 13 ¾ in. (24.1 x 34.9 cm.)

Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield, Massachusetts

Specialist note

Travellers and two porters carrying a client in a kago (traveling chair) are forced to run through a sudden and heavy rainstorm near the town of Shono in Ise Province. The umbrella of the figure on the right has two inscriptions: Takenouchi, the publisher of the series, and Gojusan tsugi (Fifty-three stations), part of the title of the series.