Technique: nishikie, Color woodblock print, signed on the plate Hiroshige ga
Series: Shokoku Meisho Hyakkey, One Hundred Views of the Provinces, n.52
Format: oban tate-e (mm. 358x240)
Date: 1859, eleventh month
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Printer: Harikane Horicho
A splendid work with excellent colors. Printed on Japanese paper, datable to the second half of the 19th century. In perfect condition, with good margins all around.
The series dates back to the period in which, after the death of the master Hiroshige I in 1858, his favorite pupil and son-in-law Shigenobu inherited his artistic name, starting to sign himself simply “Hiroshige”.
The series title appears in the vertical rectangular cartouche at the top right; the title of each individual print is in the square cartouche to its left.
Bibliography:
Art Institute Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/196828/actual-view-of-hirose-unshu-province-unshu-hirose-shinkei-from-the-series-one-hundred-famous-views-in-the-various-provinces-shokoku-meisho-hyakkei
https://www.hiroshigeii.net/series/100Provinces.html
Edward F. Strange, in the volume The Color-Prints of Hiroshige