Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) - Lot 60

Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) Kawaguchi no Watashi Zenkoji The Kawaguchi ferry and Zenkoji temple Opposite Zenkoji temple, long rafts ply the river, carrying visitors from one bank to the other. The water is an intense blue in the middle of the river and along its banks. he Meisho Edo Hyakkei series, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, pl. 20, spring. Date: Serpent 2 (1857). Signed Hiroshige ga. Publisher Uoya Eikichi. Format oban tate-e: 36 x 25 cm Full margins. Framed under glass. Bibliography: L. Binyon, A catalog of japanese and chinese woodcuts in the British Museum, London 1916, p.451, 406 and 407 - B. Stewart, Subjects portrayed in japanese colour. Prints, London 1922, p.167, 20 - E. Strange, The color prints of Hiroshige, London Cassell 1925, p.181, 49 - J. Suzuki, Utagawa Hiroshige, The Nihon Keisai Shimbun, Tokyo 1970, 481 - Ukiyo-e Taikei, vol. XVI, Meisho Edo Hyakkei, part I, Tokyo 1975, pl. 20 coul. and p.104. Exhibitions: Huguette Berès, Hiroshige, Paris 1955, 70 - Collection Riese, Ingelheim 1967, 139.