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Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige, 1777–1835) | Twilight Snow on Mount Fuji: Complete View of the Back Shrine and the Middle Shrine at Shimo Sengen (Fuji bosetsu, Shimo Sengen atomiya nakamiya zenzu) | Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige, 1777–1835)

Twilight Snow on Mount Fuji: Complete View of the Back Shrine and the Middle Shrine at Shimo Sengen (Fuji bosetsu, Shimo Sengen atomiya nakamiya zenzu)

Edo period, 19th century


woodblock print, from the series Eight VIews of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), signed Toyoshige hitsu (Brush of Toyoshige), censor's seal kiwame (approved), published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1833-34, second edition


Horizontal oban: 22.5 x 35.6 cm., 8⅞ x 14 in.

This is the second edition with the series title written in semi-cursive script, as well as some slight changes to the blocks. The series title was written in standard script in the first edition.


For another impression of the second edition in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession RES.54.113, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/327485/twilight-snow-on-mount-fuji-complete-view-of-the-back-shrin?ctx=3cdcfff5-c42c-4fba-ae75-30c6cdfcabce&idx=1