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Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (1826–1869)
Sixty-eight Views of the Various Provinces (Shokoku rokuju-hakkei), 1862
The complete set of sixty-eight prints, mounted in an album
Each design signed Hiroshige ga, titled as above and numbered in the lower right margin, some with publisher's mark Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido), 1862
Each print vertical chuban (approx. 24.2 x 18cm.)
The album 28.3 x 21.9 x 5.5cm.
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This landscape series dates from the end of the middle period of Hiroshige II's career, when he was approximately thirty-six years old. Many of the images in this series are based on those in Hiroshige I's series Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces.

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