Ryogoku hanabi (Fireworks, Ryogoku), from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the Eastern Capital) Mitsuke, Tenryugawa zu (Tenryu River, Mitsuke), from the series Tokaido gojusantsugi no uchi (The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido) Nissaka sayononakayama (Sayononaka Mountain near Nissaka), from the same series

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Ryogoku hanabi (Fireworks, Ryogoku), from the series Toto meisho (Famous places of the Eastern Capital)

Mitsuke, Tenryugawa zu (Tenryu River, Mitsuke), from the series Tokaido gojusantsugi no uchi (The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido)

Nissaka sayononakayama (Sayononaka Mountain near Nissaka), from the same series
Three prints, each signed Hiroshige ga, the first published by Maruya Seijiro, the second published by Takenouchi Magohachi and Tsuruya Kiemon (Hoeido/Senkakudo)--moderate and good impressions and color, soiled, stained, worming, trimmed, centerfold and associated tears top and bottom on third
oban yoko-e: 23.6 x 35.9cm., first; 24.3 x 36cm., second; 24.7 x 36.4cm., third (3)

Provenance

Frank Lloyd Wright, first
Herman and Paul Jaehne, second

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) began collecting ukiyo-e prints in the 1890s and made his first trip to Japan in 1905. In 1918, at the time he was building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he sold eighty Hiroshige prints, including the first in this lot, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $62.50.

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