Hiroshige: Kanda Myôjin Shrine
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 – 1858)

Visitors walking around at the Kanda Myôjin Shrine precincts and enjoying the view over the city from the resting benches.

Title: Kanda Myôjin

Series: Tôto meisho (Famous Places in the Eastern Capital)

Signature: Hiroshige ga

Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (red seal in the right margin)

Date: 1833-39

Size: Oban yoko-e, 25 cm x 37 cm

Very fine print with good coulours and wide margins. Possibly missing plate for an additional red. Tiny hole in the bottom middle of the print. One small paper loss in bottom margin, in right margin a very short cut (0,5 cms long).
Overall very good condition of this beautiful print.

Cf.: Museum of fine Arts Boston , No. 20.70 auch Honolulu Museum of Art No.23590

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