Live Auction 20621Japanese and Korean Art Including the Collection of David and Nayda Utterberg
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Lot 223

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Ryogoku hanabi (Fireworks, Ryogoku)

Closed22 March 2022

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USD 10,710

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Ryogoku hanabi (Fireworks, Ryogoku)
Woodblock print, from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One hundred views of Edo), signed Hiroshige ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, 8th month 1858
Vertical oban: 14 1⁄8 x 9 3⁄4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm.)

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The firework displays at the Ryogoku Bridge were among the most popular summer pleasures of Edo residents since 1733, when the first official fireworks were commissioned by the eighth Tokugawa Shogun, Yoshimune, to commemorate citizens who had died in a cholera epidemic. The memorial, including a display of fireworks, became an annual observance.