Name: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
Brand: TWO PRINTS FROM THE SERIES THE SIXTY-NINE STATIONS OF THE KISOKAIDO ROAD
Price: 800.00 GBP
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
Keisai Eisen (1790–1848)
Two prints from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)
No. 12, Shinmachi, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835–38

No. 36, Yabuhara: The Ink-stone Spring at Torii Pass (Yabuhara, Torii toge suzuri no shimizu), (unsigned, by Eisen), published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1835-38
Both horizontal oban:
24.7 x 36cm.
21.7 x 34.3cm.

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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 other impressions of both designs in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession numbers 11.39280 and 21.4816, go to www.mfa.org/collections