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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) Travellers and two porters carrying a client in a kago [traveling chair]
are forced to run through a sudden and heavy rainstorm near the
Shono, hakuu (Shono: driving rain)
town of Shono in Ise Province. The umbrella of the figure on the
Woodblock print, from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (The right has two inscriptions: Takenouchi, the publisher of the series, and
fifty-three stations of the Tokaido), signed Hiroshige ga, published by
Gojusan tsugi ['Fifty-three stations'], part of the title of the series.
Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeido), circa 1833-34
Horizontal oban: 9æ x 14¡ in. (24.8 x 36.5 cm.)
$10,000-15,000
