![HIROSHIGE: o-tanzaku (36.8 x 16.5cm.); Yumiharizuki (Crescent moon) from the series Tsuki nijuhakkei no uchi (Twenty-eight views of the moon), a crescent moon seen under the "Monkey Bridge" over a deep ravine and cascade in Kai province, a Chinese poem above, signed Hiroshige ga and published by Wakasaya Yoichi [Jakurindo]--very good impression and color, very slight soiling, a faint horizontal centerfold, several pin holes, one restored in the cartouche](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYP/1998_NYP_09048_0412_000(111524).jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
For other impressions see Suzuki Juzo, Hiroshige (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1970), no. 98; Tokubetsu ten ukiyo-e: Matsukata korekushon o chushin to shite/Special Exhibition Ukiyo-e, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1984), no. 641; Tokubetsu ten Utagawa Hiroshige ten: Tanjo nihyakunen kinen/The Exhibition of Utagawa Hiroshige: The 200th Anniversary of his birth, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1996); and Vignier and Inada, Utamaro..., Estampes Japonaises: Tires des Collection de...et Exposes au Muse des Arts Dcoratifs en Janvier 1912, reprinted in 2 vols. (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973), pl. LXXVI, no. 258.
Another impression was sold in these Rooms, 26 April, 1995, lot 265; 27 June, 1984, lot 328; and Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March, 1974, lot 391.
Another impression was sold in these Rooms, 26 April, 1995, lot 265; 27 June, 1984, lot 328; and Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, 26 March, 1974, lot 391.