FICHE 16238
(1797 - 1858)
Wakasa Province: A Fishing Boat Catching Flat-Fish in a Net (Wakasa, Gyosen karei ami)
Woodblock print
1853
Impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu, from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue). Publisher : Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei). Censors' seal's Hama, Magome, Ox 9.
Sheet: vertical ôban (357 x 238 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: margins partially trimmed (stamps partially cut off), soilings in the ship's sail.