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HIROSHIGE, Utagawa (1797 - 1858)		ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO 'Moon Pine, Ueno'
		Signed:                     Hiroshige ga Publisher's seal:    Uo-ya Eikichi Dated:                       1857, 8th month Size:                          oban tate-e (c. 35. 7 x 24. 1 cms / 14" x 9 1/2") Condition: Very good to fine impression and color, two restorations, else fine condition. ref. no.: # 591788 Price: € 2,850.00

This is the second depiction of this remarkable tree in the series: one year earlier, Hiroshige had designed a much wider panaroma of Shinobazu Pond where we see the tree as a relatively small element of the design in the distance (no. # 11 in the Brooklyn Museum collection - see below). "Here it is as though the artist had moved in with a telephoto lense, peering directly through the looped branch of this curious tree. The other view was published in 4/1856, near the start of the series, before the artist had begun to use this kind of compositional contrivance. It was over a year later that he returned to the scene with a very different way of looking at it." (H. D. Smith II, op.cit.) Reference: Henry D. Smith II, "One hundred famous views of Edo", Brooklyn Museum collection; Braziller Inc., New York, 1986; no. 89. "Ukiyo-e Taikei"; Shueisha, Tokyo, 1973.

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