PROPERTY FROM A COLLECTION

Utagawa Hirokage (active 1855–1865)
Forty-four prints from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho doke zukushi)
Comprising numbers 1 - 45 (excluding number 38), each signed Hirokage ga, published by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshodo), 1859, mounted as an album

No. 1, Morning Market at Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi no asaichi)
No. 2, Shower at Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku no yudachi)
No. 3, Strange Events at Tomonoura in Asakusa (Asakusa Tomonoura no kikai)
No. 4, Fishermen at Ochanomizu (Ochanomizu no tsuribito)
No. 5, Cherry-blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill (Asuka-yama no hanami)
No. 6, Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu ike)
No. 7, Strong Wind on Shin-Ohashi Bridge (Shin-Ohashi no okaze)
No. 8, Spring on the Sumida River Embankment (Sumida-zutsumi no yayoi)
No. 9, Terrace of the Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenjin no dai)
No. 10, Sakuma-cho outside Kanda (Soto Kanda Sakuma-cho)
No. 11, Shogun's Road at Shitaya (Shitaya Onarimichi)
No. 12, Low Tide at Susaki (Susaki no shiohi)
No. 13, Tanabata Festival at the Yoroi Ferry (Yoroi no watashi Tanabata matsuri)
No. 14, Akabane Bridge at Shiba in Snow (Shiba Akabane hashi no setchu)
No. 15, Distant View at Kasumigaseki (Kasumigaseki no chobo)
No. 16, Fox-fires at Oji (Oji no kitsunebi)
No. 17, Gion Festival in Tori-itchome (Tori-itchome Gion-e)
No. 18, Night Scene at Horitahara in Asakusa (Asakusa Horitahara yakei)
No. 19, Mitsumata at the Great Bridge (Ohashi no Mitsumata)
No. 20, Listening to Crickets at Dokan Hill (Dokan-yama mushi-kiki)
No. 21, Cherry-blossom Viewing at the Middle Hall and the Double Hall in Ueno (Ueno Chudo Futatsu-do no hanami)
No. 22, Snow in Front of the Official Storehouses (Onkura mae no yuki)
No. 23, Takanawa in Shiba (Shiba Takanawa)
No. 24, Sukiya-gashi Embankment (Sukiya-gashi)
No. 25, Drum Bridge at Kameido (Kameido taikobashi)
No. 26, View of the Spiral Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku rakan Sazai-do no kei)
No. 27, Meshikura Street in Shiba (Shiba Meshikura-tori)
No. 28, View of Gomi Hill in Tsumagoi (Tsumagoi Gomizaka no kei)
No. 29, Outside the Gate at Toranomon (Tora-no-gomon soto no kei)
No. 30, Yonezawa-machi in Ryogoku (Ryogoku Yonezawa-machi)
No. 31, Senki Inari Shrine at Sunamura (Sunamura Senki Inari)
No. 32, Ueno Hirokoji
No. 33, View of the Myoken Temple at Yanagibashi (Yanagibashi Myoken no kei)
No. 34, Inside Sujikai Gate (Sujikai gomon uchi)
No. 35, Plum-blossom Viewing at Azuma-no-mori (Azuma-no-mori umemi)
No. 36, Komagata Hall in Asakusa (Asakusa Komagata-do)
No. 37, Tatekawa in Honjo (Honjo Tatekawa)
No. 39, Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi)
No. 40, Towboats on the Yotsugi-dori Canal (Yotsugi-dori no hikifune)
No. 41, Onmayagashi Embankment in Asakusa (Asakusa Onmayagashi)
No. 42, Hatsune Riding Grounds (Hatsune no baba)
No. 43, Iidamachi
No. 44, Willow Well outside Sakurada Gate (Sakurada soto Yanagi-no-i)
No. 45, View of Akasaka (Akasaka no kei)
Each print vertical oban (approx. 33.3 x 21.7cm.)
The album 43.7 x 29.8 x 3.3cm.

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