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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province (Suruga Satta kaijo) | Edo period, 19th century
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December 12, 12:57 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description
woodblock print, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido), 4th month 1858
Vertical oban: 37.1 x 25.4 cm, 14⅝ by 10 in.
Hiroshige’s tribute to Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave. Here, the tempestuous waters thrash to the lower right off the sea at Satta. In a device used in another of Hiroshige’s most famous prints, Awa Province: Naruto Whirlpools [see Lot 232], plovers (chidori) in flight appear like a spume of wave in what could be described as an elegant confusion, or mitate.
A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1902,0212,0.396.25, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1902-0212-0-396-25
For a further impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.39213, go to:
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