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100
OKUMURA MASANOBU (1686-1764)
Tiger and bamboo
Woodblock print, ishizuri-e, signed Hogetsudo Okumura
Masanobu shohitsu (genuine brush of Hogetsudo Okumura
Masanobu) and sealed Tanchosai
Hosoban: 12Ω x 5√ in. (31.8 x 14.9 cm.)
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE:
Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906)

101
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
A set of six woodblock prints from an untitled series of
famous places in various provinces
Woodblock prints, each sealed Hiro and Shige, one with
additional seal Ichiryusai, published circa 1835, comprising:
1. Suo Gokei (Gokei Gorge in Suo Province)
2. Soshu Enoshima (The grotto at Enoshima in Soshu Province)
3. Shodoshima Bishamon hara (Bishamon Cave in Shodoshima Island)
4. Sunshu Satta mine (Satta Pass in Suruga Province)
5. Zuso Hakone yama (Full moon in the Hakone Mountains in
Izu Province)
6. Awa Naruto (Naruto whirlpools in Awa Province)
Each sheet 10 x 4√ in. (25.4 x 12.4 cm.) approx. (6)
$15,000-20,000

This rare set of six prints were printed three to an oban
sheet. Each print is titled imitating a red seal to the right
of a Chinese poem on each design. See Roger S. Keyes,
100 Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Catalogue of the Mary A. Ainsworth
Collection, Allen Memorial Art Museum, (Ohio, 1984),
p. 226. Five designs of the set are in the collection of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession nos. 21.7848,
21.7849, 21.7850, 54.217, 54.218). The other design is in the
collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (accession no.
96.146.249).