Hiroshige: Oki Province
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

The sailors on two kitamae-bune ships (merchant ships on the northern route) performing the Shintô rituals in front of the Takuhi shrine on Nishinoshima island (one of the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan) to pray for good luck and blessings for their sea-faring.

Title: Oki - Takuhi no yashiro (Oki Province - The Takuhi shrine).

Series: (Dai Nihon) Rokujû-yoshû meisho-zue (Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces).

Signature: Hiroshige hitsu

Publisher: Koshimura-ya Heisuke (Koshi-hei), Edo

Date: 1853

Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Vertical Ôban, 34.3 x 22.7 cm (image)

Very nice impression and colours. Unbacked. Right margin partly, left margin trimmed to the image’s black border line. A small wormhole in upper margin, verso two small paper strips from previous attachment. Bottom left collector's seal Irma Grabhorn.

Suzuki/Ôkubo, no.44; Jansen, no. 44. For a comparable state cf. Chazen Museum of Art, Van Vleck Coll., no. 1980.1339.

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