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Part II - Pre-Meiji period (2)

Utagawa HIROSHIGE (1797 - 1858)

The complete limited and numbered edition set of twenty-one tanzaku-sized woodblock prints made from the artist's original drawings:

"Calligraphy as taught by the Chancellor Sugawara" (01-09)
   (Sugawara denju tenerai kagami)

"Sights of the Provinces" (10-12)
   (Shokoku meisho)

"Views of the Provinces" (13-18)
   (without series title)

Three kacho-e (19-21)


Signed:          Hiroshige ga
Sealed:           Ichiryusai
Publisher:     Robert G. Sawers
Date:               1980's (?)

Size:               tanzaku (25 x 12 cms / 9 7/8" x 4 3/4"), each
Edition no.:    no. 1 of the limited edition of 250

Impression and colors: excellent
Condition:     Fine overall

Set comes in 'chitsu' (cloth-covered Japanese-style wrapper, see pic below at left), and each print is in a mount. Both, prints and mounts carry the penciled limited edition number.

ref. no.: # 561488
Price:  € 1,250.00 (for the entire set of twenty-one prints)



The chitsu (cloth-covered Japanese storage box)

Introduction by Jack Hillier  (click to read)


- For print descriptions and larger illustrations, please click on the pictures below -


1. - 9.:
"Calligraphy as
taught by the
Chancellor Sugawara"
('Sugawara denju tenerai kagami')
1.
2.
3.
4.



5.
6.
7.
8.
9.


10. - 12.:
"Sights of the
Provinces"
('Shokoku meisho')
10.
11.
12. 		13. - 18.:
Views of the
Provinces
(no series title)
13.



14.
15.
16.
17.
18.


19. - 21.:
Kacho-e
('Bird and Flower prints)
19.
20.
21.


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