Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Six woodblock prints from Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi) | Edo period, 19th century

The Property of a Gentleman, Formerly in the Collection of Edmond de Goncourt

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Six woodblock prints from Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi)

Edo period, 19^th century

each a woodblock print, from the series Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga, censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudo), circa 1837-38, and comprising:

- Clearing Weather at Shibaura (Shibaura no seiran)

- Evening Bell at Ikegami (Ikegami no bansho)

- Night Rain at Azuma-no-mori (Azuma-no-mori yau)

- Returning Sails at Gyotoku (Gyotoku no kihan)

- Autumn Moon on the Tama River (Tamagawa no shugetsu)

- Descending Geese at Haneda (Haneda no rakugan)

Each horizontal oban: each 22 x 34.8 cm., 8¾ x 13¾ in.