I submitted a humble bid, just for the fun of it – and somehow it slipped under the radar.
Maisaka: View of Imagiri, designed in the 1830’s by Utagawa Hiroshige, is number forty of a famous series – 53 Stations of the Tokaido. The Tokaido was the more popular of two roads connecting Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto (the other being the Kisokaido).
A hundred or so years later, a Japanese firm began making high-quality recut prints of Hiroshige and Hokusai originals. The beautiful print below is one of those.
I got lucky….
Well done! you must have deserved it — very special.
Chris you have a good eye and clever bidding technique. Lucky you, it’s beautiful with many elements of rugged scenery.
I’m curious abt the three white shapes in RHS mid foreground – they look like boat sails in shape but as they have writing on them they might have another purpose.
Just perfect to me Christopher .. so good this beautiful woodblock picture now will live in your home.
I have just read an article about Hiroshige almost completely made pictures , compositions which showed life, lives away and seperate from difficult situations which existed in his time in Japan. A way of working which I care about also. I love seeing his pictures very much.