HIROSHIGE: nagaban yoko-e (17.6 x 51.7cm. ea. approx.); seven e-bangire, writing papers, each one-half of a hosho-sheet, each signed in a red double-gourd cartouche Hiroshige hitsu and depicting different landscapes, labelled in oblong cartouches in the lower right:

From the Collection of the late Werner Schindler

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HIROSHIGE: nagaban yoko-e (17.6 x 51.7cm. ea. approx.); seven e-bangire, writing papers, each one-half of a hosho-sheet, each signed in a red double-gourd cartouche Hiroshige hitsu and depicting different landscapes, labelled in oblong cartouches in the lower right:

Hagidera (Hagidera temple)
Susaki yuki no asa (Morning after snow at Susaki)
Yuhigaoka
Nakagawaguchi no zu (Mouth of the Naka river)
Koganei no kei (View of Koganei)
Takata (no) baba
Gyotoku shiohama (Gyotoku salt beach)

Each very good impression, light, delicate color of blue, yellow and red, the last more faded and cartouches faded, stains in the sky area and several sheets lightly creased (7)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED
Eiko Kondo, Masterpieces of Japanese Prints from the Schindler Collection (1985), no. 208 (Takatababa, Koganei)