Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Fuji-view Teahouse at Zoshigaya (Zoshigaya Fujimi chaya) | Edo period, 19th century

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2,000 - 3,000 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: 35.3 x 24.2 cm, 13⅞ by 9½ in.

Two young women look out over the plain at Mount Fuji from a teahouse at Zoshigaya on the outskirts of Edo. One sits on a bench of a tea stall smoking a kiseru pipe, while the other gazes over the flatlands. Pink chrysanthemums emerge from the bottom of the scene, growing on four stakes.

A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 21.5297, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/232976

For a further impression in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1902,0212,0.396.34, go to:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1902-0212-0-396-34

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