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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Yase no sato (The village of Yase) Yodogawa (The Yodo River)
Woodblock print, from the series Kyoto meisho no uchi (Famous views Woodblock print, from the series Kyoto meisho no uchi (Famous views
of Kyoto), signed Hiroshige ga, published by Kawaguchiya Shozo of Kyoto), signed Hiroshige ga and sealed Ichiryusai, published by
(Eisendo), circa 1834 Kawaguchiya Shozo (Eisendo), circa 1834
Horizontal oban: 9¡ x 14æ in. (23.8 x 37.5 cm.) Horizontal oban: 10¡ x 15º in. (26.4 x 38.7 cm.)
$5,000-8,000 $8,000-10,000

Three women, one carrying a ladder, another a tray and the third LITERATURE:
Matthi Forrer, Hiroshige, Prints and Drawings, (London, 1997), cat.
a bundle of branches, walk along a path through a green field. A no. 51.
fourth figure in the distance leads a packhorse up the hill along the
path behind them; the roofs of Yase village are just visible over the A ferry boat laden with passengers and luggage crosses the Yodo
crest of the hill. River; a major route between Kyoto and Osaka. A smaller boat
has pulled up alongside to serve food and drink and a cuckoo flies
across the moon.