Name: Eight Prints from the Series the Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road
Brand: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)
Price: 1500.00 GBP
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
Eight prints from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road
Eight woodblock prints, each signed Hiroshige ga and published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835-38, comprising:
No. 16, Annaka
No. 45, Ochiai
No. 52, Ota
No. 60, Imasu
No. 62, Samegai
No. 63, Banba
No. 65, Takamiya
No. 69, the Crossroad at Kusatsu (Kusatsu oiwake)

Each horizontal oban:
22.5 x 35.2cm.
24.6 x 36.2cm.
24.4 x 36.3cm.
24.3 x 36.2cm.
25.2 x 36.1cm.
24.9 x 36.2cm.
25.1 x 36.4cm.
24.5 x 36.5cm.

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This set was started by Eisen and published by Hoeido in 1835, however in 1837 Hiroshige took over the project, working with the publisher Iseiri (Kinjudo).

For another impression of the first in the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, go to http://embarkkiosk.chazen.wisc.edu/OBJ5300

For another impression of the second, third and fourth in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.39296, 21.5215 and 21.5218 respectively, go to www.mfa.org/collections

For another impression of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers 11.39297, 11.21763, 21.5205 and 21.5193, go to www.mfa.org/collections

Provenance:
The first, Huguette Berès (collector's seal bottom right corner)