ANTIQUE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT BY UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE
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Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797 to 1858, an antique Taisho era ukiyo e color woodblock print on Washi paper, The Soga Brothers sneaked in their enemy Kudo Suketsunes bedroom at night. Tale of the Soga Brothers. 1917. Signed in the plate to the center left. Inscribed with Calligraphy to the center right and left. Utagawa Hiroshige, born Ando Tokutaro, was a Japanese ukiyo e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the T?kaid? and for his vertical format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japans Edo period, 1603 to 1868. Antique Asian and Oriental Graphic Art Prints and Collectibles.
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 6 in. All measurements are approximate.
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