Three woodblock prints. From "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" and "Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces
Three woodblock prints.
"Distant View of Kinryuzan Temple and Azuma Bridge" 吾妻橋金龍山遠望 (Azumabashi Kinryuzan Enbo), n. 39 from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" 名所江戸百景 (Meisho Edo hyakkei).
"Gotenyama, Shinagawa" 品川御殿やま (Shinagawa Goten-yama), n. 28 from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" 名所江戸百景 (Meisho Edo hyakkei).
"Satsuma Province: Bō Bay, The Two-sword Rocks" 薩摩 坊ノ浦 双剣石 (Satsuma, Bō no ura, Sōkenseki), n. 67 from the series "Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces" 六十余州名所図会 (Rokujūyoshū meisho zue).
Frames 39 x 28 cm.
Faded. "Bo bay" with holes. Not examined out of frames.
Ando Hiroshige is one of the most renowned a Japanese painters born in Edo. He began his artistic career as an apprentice to Utagawa Toyohiro. After completing his training, Hiroshige took his teacher's name and started signing his works Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige painted motifs from everyday life, and it is said that he decided to become an artist after seeing the works of the contemporary artist Hokusai. Hiroshige transformed ordinary landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. He is particularly known for his beautiful landscape images in the woodblock printing technique and has painted portraits of young women and actors. His masterpiece is considered to be the work “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.”
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