Name: Keisai Eisen (1790–1848) Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
Brand: FOUR PRINTS FROM THE SERIES THE SIXTY-NINE STATIONS OF THE KISOKAIDO ROAD
Price: 1500.00 GBP
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Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
Four prints from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)
No. 35, Narai Station: Shop for the Famous Local Product, Oroku Combs (Narai shuku, meisanten no zu), signed Eisen ga, published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1835–38

No. 67, Musa, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835-38

No. 24, Shionata, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835-38

No. 2, Itabashi Station (Itabashi no eki), unsigned (by Eisen), published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835-38
All horizontal oban:
22.2 x 34.5cm.
23.5 x 35.6cm.
23.8 x 35.8cm.
23.2 x 35.2cm.

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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, second and third in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 11.25639, 11.23147, 11.25144, go to www.mfa.org/collections

For an impression of the fourth in the collections of the British Museum with no publisher's mark, museum number 1906,1220,0.963, go to www.britishmuseum.org/collection