Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige, 1777-1835) | The complete set of Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei) | Edo period, 19th century
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Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige, 1777-1835)
The complete set of Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)
Edo period, 19th century
the complete set of eight woodblock prints, from the series Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei), each signed Toyokuni hitsu (Brush of Toyokuni), sealed Utagawa, censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1833-34; each with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso, and comprising:
- Night Rain at Oyama: The Peak Seen from the Fudo Temple in Front (Oyama yau, Zen Fudo yori chojo no zu), second edition
- Sunset Glow at Atami: True View of Oshima from Atami Harbor (Atami sekisho, Atami-ga-hama yori Oshima no shinkei), second edition
- Autumn Moon of the Jewel River: Netting Whitebait in the Jewel River (Tamagawa shugetsu, Tamagawa ayukumi no zu), second edition
- Evening Bell at Kamakura: Mountains of Awa Province Seen from Tsurugaoka (Kamakura bansho, Tsurugaoka yori Boshu yama no zu), second edition
- Descending Geese at Miho: Kiyomizu Temple of Suruga Province, with a Distant View of Yoshiwara (Miho rakugan, Sunshu Kiyomizudera Yoshiwara miru enkei), second edition
- Returning Sails at Kanazawa: View of Nojima from Seto Bridge (Kanazawa kihan, Setobashi yori Nojima no zu), second edition
- Twilight Snow on Mount Fuji: Complete View of the Back Shrine and the Middle Shrine at Shimo Sengen (Fuji bosetsu, Shimo Sengen atomiya nakamiya zenzu), second edition
- Clearing Weather at Enoshima: Koyurugi Strand and Morokoshigahara (Enoshima seiran, Koyurugi no iso, Morokoshigahara), first edition
Each vertical oban:
24.4 x 36.5 cm., 9⅝ x 14⅜ in. (the first)
24.4 x 36.5 cm., 9⅝ x 14⅜ in. (the second)
24.4 x 36.6 cm., 9⅝ x 14⅜ in. (the third)
24.2 x 36.7 cm., 9½ x 14½ in. (the fourth)
24.6 x37.2 cm., 9¾ x 14½ in. (the fifth)
24.4 x 36.2 cm., 9⅝ x 14¼ (the sixth)
24.7 x 37.2 cm., 9¾ x 14⅝ in. (the seventh)
24.4 x 37.3 cm., 9⅝ x 14⅝ in. (the eighth)
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Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige, 1777-1835), Série complète des Huit vues de lieux célèbres (Meisho hakkei), époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Narazaki Muneshige, ed., Hizo ukiyo-e taikan, Puruvera korekushon [Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections: The Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), monochrome pl., nos. 30-37.
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection] (Tokyo, 1990), p. 46, nos. 1-62, 1-63 and 1-64. (Sunset Glow at Atami: True View of Oshima from Atami Harbor, Autumn Moon of the Jewel River: Netting Whitebait in the Jewel River and Evening Bell at Kamakura: Mountains of Awa Province Seen from Tsurugaoka)
Doitsu Puruvera korekushon ukiyo-e hanga meihinten [Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Pulverer Collection], exhibited at the following venues:
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Osaka, 27th December 1990 - 8th January 1991
Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ginza, 24th - 29th January 1991
(Sunset Glow at Atami: True View of Oshima from Atami Harbor, Autumn Moon of the Jewel River: Netting Whitebait in the Jewel River and Evening Bell at Kamakura: Mountains of Awa Province Seen from Tsurugaoka)
In the first edition the series title is written in standard script; in the second edition, it is in semi-cursive script, and there are some other changes in the blocks.
Similar impressions of each print are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession numbers RES.54.170, RES.54.109, 50.427, 50.4049, RES.54.110, RES.54.112, RES.54.113 and 06.1069.