Live Auction 20214Important Japanese Art
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Lot 42 PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode (Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival)

Closed21 September 2021

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode (Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival)
Woodblock print, from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One hundred famous views of Edo), signed Hiroshige ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, 11th month 1857
Vertical oban: 13 ½ x 9 in. (34.3 x 22.9 cm.)

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

Specialist note

Resting on a window ledge, a white cat gazes out through a barred window over the Asakusa rice-fields below. A flock of birds descend towards Mount Fuji in the southwest and a long silhouetted line of a festival procession extends across the paddies. Here was the sight of Otori Shrine, worshipped particularly by the commoner class in the Edo period for commercial favour and fortune, and communally celebrated in the Torinomachi festival in November.