UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) TWO WOODBLOCK PRINTS, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

TWO WOODBLOCK PRINTS

EDO PERIOD (19^TH CENTURY)

Each a woodblock print, and comprising:

- Sunrise on New Year's Day at Susaki (Susaki hatsu hi no de), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho), signed Hiroshige ga, censor's seals Kinugasa (Kinugasa Fusajiro) and Murata (Murata Heiemon), no publisher's mark, 8th month 1853

- Kanegawa: View of the Embankment (Kanagawa, dai no kei), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga, censor's seal kiwame, published by Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido) circa, 1833–34

Both a horizontal oban:

The first: 25.6 x 37.5 cm., 10 1/8 x 14 5/8 in.

The second: 24.6 x 36.8 cm., 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.