Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) | Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa (Shiojiri toge, Suwa no kosui chobo) | Edo period, 19th century
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Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)
Shiojiri Pass: View of Lake Suwa (Shiojiri toge, Suwa no kosui chobo)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road, unsigned, published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835-38
Horizontal oban: 23.7 x 35.1 cm., 9¼ x 13¾ in.
Travellers cross frozen Lake Suwa towards Takashima Castle. Mount Fuji rises on the horizon to the right. In the foreground on the right is the steep descent from the Shiojiri Pass, down to the station at the lower left. This is a later edition lacking signature and the top Takenouchi seal, and with the horse’s girth bearing the seal of the publisher Kinjudo.
For a similar impression in the collection of The British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.960, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-960