The Property of an English Gentleman
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Kazusa Province: Yasashi Bay, Common Name: Kujukuri (Kazusa, Yasashika ura, torina Kujukuri) | Edo period, 19th century
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The Property of an English Gentleman
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Kazusa Province: Yasashi Bay, Common Name: Kujukuri (Kazusa, Yasashika ura, torina Kujukuri)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue), signed Hiroshige hitsu, censor's seals Kinugasa (Kinugasa Fusajiro) and Murata (Murata Sahei), published by Koshimuraya Heisuke, 8th month 1853
Vertical oban: 37.3 x 25.4 cm., 14¾ x 10 in.
For a similar impression in the collection of the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, accession number 1984.639, go to:
https://chazen.wisc.edu/collection/7021/yasashi-bay-also-called-ninetynine-ri-beach/