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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS
(LOTS 24-83)
33 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Kanbara yoru no yuki (Evening
snow at Kanbara)
Woodblock print, from the series Tokaido
gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three stations of
the Tokaido), signed Hiroshige ga, published by
Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1834
Horizontal oban: 9Ω x 13¬ in. (24.1 x 34.6 cm.)
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield,
Massachusetts
34 UTAGAWA
Three figures trudge through falling snow in the village of
Kanbara, Shizuoka Prefecture. In fact Hiroshige visited Kanbara
during late summer or early autumn and therefore this scene
is imagined. Considered amongst his finest snowscenes, in the
earliest impressions of this design (as here), the leg of the far
right figure has a flaw whereby the block-cutter mistakenly did
not cut away all the wood between the lines of the legs. In these
early impressions the black bokashi usually descends from the top
of the design.
HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Shono, hakuu (Shono: driving
rain)
Woodblock print, from the series Tokaido Travellers and two porters carrying a client in a kago (traveling
gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three stations of chair) are forced to run through a sudden and heavy rainstorm
the Tokaido), signed Hiroshige ga, published by near the town of Shono in Ise Province. The umbrella of the
Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1833- figure on the right has two inscriptions: Takenouchi, the publisher
of the series, and Gojusan tsugi (Fifty-three stations), part of the
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title of the series.
Horizontal oban: 9Ω x 13æ in. (24.1 x 34.9 cm.)
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield,
Massachusetts