Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | No. 28, Nagakubo | Edo period, 19th century

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Description

woodblock print, from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), sealed Ichiryusai, published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo), circa 1835-38

Horizontal oban: 24.1 x 36.6 cm., 9 ½ by 14⅜ in.

In the foreground, children are at play with two dogs while a man leads a packhorse toward a riverside dwelling. In the distance, travellers are crossing bridge silhouetted against the light of a full moon.

A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.932, go to:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-932

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