Artists

Ashigarayama, Fuji no suso, 1850-1852

Original color woodcut inches 7 x 9,4 (mm 178 x 240)

Bibliography: Strange E.F., The colour prints of Hiroshige, London and New York 1925, reprints Geneva 1973, New York 1983, p. 46; Lane R., Images from the floating world, The japanese prints, Freiburg 1978, French edition Freiburg 1979; Stewart B., Subject portrayed in japanese colour-prints, London 1925, reprints Geneva 1973 New York 1979.

Plate from the series Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three Stations of Tôkaidô Road, also known as the first Tôkaidô or the great Tôkaidô). Good proof with fresh and brilliant colours. Very well-preserved.