HIROSHIGE: oban yoko-e (23.8 x 36cm.); Shono haku-u "White rain [driving rain], Shono", from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi "The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido", signed Hiroshige ga and published by Hoeido/Senkakudo--very good impression and color, partial backing on left, upper left corner and several minor tears restored, slightly narrow marigns

Details

HIROSHIGE: oban yoko-e (23.8 x 36cm.); Shono haku-u "White rain [driving rain], Shono", from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi "The fifty-three stations of the Tokaido", signed Hiroshige ga and published by Hoeido/Senkakudo--very good impression and color, partial backing on left, upper left corner and several minor tears restored, slightly narrow marigns

Provenance

Theodor Scheiwe, sold in these Rooms, Japanese Prints, Paintings, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Collection of the late Theodor Scheiwe, Part I, 21 March, 1989

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Rose Hempel, Ausstellung Japanische Holtzschnitte (Munster: 1959), no. 222, p. 134; and Rose Hempel, Kunst Aus Japan (Essen: 1972), no. 454, p. 254.