Fine Japanese Prints

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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 11. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Watching Fireworks in the Cool of the Evening at Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi yusuzumi hanabi kenbutsu no zu) | Edo period, late 18th century.

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Watching Fireworks in the Cool of the Evening at Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi yusuzumi hanabi kenbutsu no zu) | Edo period, late 18th century

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Property from a Private Collector

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Watching Fireworks in the Cool of the Evening at Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi yusuzumi hanabi kenbutsu no zu)

Edo period, late 18th century


woodblock print, from the series Newly Published Perspective Pictures (Shinpan uki-e), signed Katsu Shunro ga, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1780s


Horizontal oban: 22.7 x 36.2 cm., 9 x 14¼ in. 

For a similar impression of the same print in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.472, go to: 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-472