“View on Nihonbashi Tori 1-chrome”, (Nihonbashi Tori-itchome ryakuzu)
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“View on Nihonbashi Tori 1-chrome”, (Nihonbashi Tori-itchome ryakuzu) |
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Inventory #: |
4621 | |
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Artist: |
Hiroshige, ANDO (Utagawa) | ||||
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Japanese 1797-1858 | ||||
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Woodblock | ||||
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1858 | ||||
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Image area - 13 1/4" x 8 3/4" (33.7 x 22.2 cm); sheet size - 14 1/4” x 9 9/16” (36.2 x 24.3 cm) | ||||
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From the series “100 Famous Views of Edo” (Meisho edo hyakkei) published by Uoya Eikichi. #58 in the series, #44 as published in the table of contents. Summer section. Publisher seal in the margin on the bottom left side with the date seal of Horse eight for 1858. The Aratame seal is absent as it was discontinued at the beginning of 1858. At upper right the title in the square box and and series title in the red oblong box; Hiroshige signature at lower left in the image. | (click on image for photos) |
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Here we have a hot summer day in the middle of Main Street in Edo. On the right edge an old man reveals his teeth as he bites a melon from the melon vendor shown below him. Above, a delivery boy, clothes open to the air, carries stacked noodle boxes from the Soba shop “Tōkyōan (The white noren in the center). In the center, under the double parasole, a group of Sumiyoshi dancers (seasonal minstrals) from the Sumiyoshi Shrine near Osaka; they perform shrine dances in return for donations. At the time of this drawing, they have become Edo street performers with distinctive costumes, usually made of cotton. The parasole has a white “gohei” (wooden wand with white streamers attached). Following them is a distinctive sort of street minstral, an onna-dayū. these are women who sing songs to samisen accompaniment. They were outcasts (hinin class) and were always followed in there rounds by a father or husband. She seems to be following the Sumiyoshi. These outcast women were forbidden to wear silk, only cotton. Therefore they had very stylish cotton kimonos. She wears high geta clogs. Interestingly, this street scene in in the cotton sellers district. The store on the right is Shirokiya, founded in 1662, later it evolved into part of the Tōkyū store chain. | ||||
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Several losses in the margins that have been repaired and backed - several on the right, one left center and one upper left corner - none into or affecting the image. Pencil title on the back top margin, Very good color, mica highlights in the black of the roof tops, baren circles in the blue-gray foreground. Not matted or mounted. | ||||
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$995 - free shipping in USA | Status: Available | |||