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HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 20211
(1797 - 1858)
No. 15, Yoshiwara: Floating Islands in Fuji Marsh (Yoshiwara, Fuji no numa ukishima ga hara)
Woodcut in colours
1855
Impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu, from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tôkaidô, published by Tsutaya Kichizô. Censors' seals aratame, hare 7.
Sheet: ôban (355 x 239 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: laid on Japan paper, some stains.
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