Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection

Japanese Woodblock Prints | Including the Sokolov Collection

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) The Willow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), Edo period, 19th century

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May 28, 01:09 PM GMT

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

The Willow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, from the series Famous Views of Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga, published by Kawaguchiya Shozo (Shoeido, Eisendo), circa 1834

Horizontal oban:

25.5 x 37.6 cm. 

For a further example of the same print is in the collection of The British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.909, go to: 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-909