Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) Tamagawa Tsutsumi... - Lot 116 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés

Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) Tamagawa Tsutsumi no Hana Cherry blossoms on the banks of the Tama River As far as the eye can see, cherry blossom trees line the banks of the Tama River. Strollers come from all over to honor their beauty. he Meisho Edo Hyakkei series, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, pl. 42, Spring. Date: Dragon 2, 1856. Signed Hiroshige ga. Aratame censor seal. Format oban tate-e: 35.7 x 23.7 cm Beautiful colors. Binding holes on the right. Margin slightly truncated on the left. Bibliography: Suzuki 503 - A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts ... in the British Museum by Laurence Binyon, London 1916, p.454, 427 - Richard Lane, L'estampe japonaise Images du Monde flottant, Office du Livre Fribourg Suisse 1979, p.249, 250-42 repr. - Strange, p.81, 24 - Ukiyo-e Taikei, tome XVI, pl. 42 repr. coul. and P.111.