Hiroshige III

Shigemasa

(1843 - 1894)

"Outside Sakurada"


  HIROSHIGE-III (SHIGEMASA), "Outside
        sakurada"

"Outside Sakurada"
(Sakurada soto "桜田外")

Series: "Famous Places in Tokiyo"
  ("東京名勝図会", Tôkyô meisho zue)

1868


Comment - Handsome view of a beauty and a boy strolling along Benkei Moat outside Sakurada. Several Edo-kites  or Edo-kaku ("Edo-tako", "江戸凧") can be seen flying high above the rooftops in the distance.
The title is in the yellowish square, and the series title is in the vertical rectangular red cartouche upper right.


Series - Series: "Famous Places in Tokiyo" ("東京名勝図会", Tôkyô meisho zue)


Artist - see Biography


Signature - "Hiroshige hitsu" ("広重筆") in white cassette at lower right;


Publisher - Hiranoyashin-zô (平野屋新蔵) (Aikindô publishing, 愛錦堂), lower left selvage, circular censor's seal (Tatsu jū ni aratame, 辰十二改) lower left


Image Size -   22.2 x 16.8 cm ( 8 3/4" x 6 5/8") + margins as shown


Condition - Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, single sheet, small vertical ôban; Tate-e (portrait);



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