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Hamamatsu - from the 53 Stations of the Tokaido

Size: 27.0cm by 40.0cm (10.63 in by 15.75 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Ando Hiroshige

Era: Mid Showa | Currency: $ / £ /

Price: ¥ 7,000$ 62.00£ 44.75€ 52.25 [Item has been sold]

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Description: This is a print from what is perhaps the single most famous series of Japanese woodblock prints ever produced - "The 53 Stations of the Tokaido", designed by Hiroshige in the 1830s.

The print you see here is a reproduction version produced in the post-war period by one of the numerous publishing houses working at that time (Adachi, Takamizawa, Yuyudo, Bijutsu-sha, Yamada Shoin, Kyoto Hanga-in, etc.) Here at Mokuhankan we have a wide selection of such prints, far too many to scan and prepare for the website one by one.

We don't always have every print in this series in stock, but try to keep as many of them available as possible. The one you see in this photo is on hand, but feel free to contact us about other designs in this series that you don't see on the site ...

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Image information: As the subtitle - written in the vermilion mark - shows, this is a scene of desolate winter ‘Fuyu-gare zu’. The rice harvest is finished, and the fields are brown and dry.

Hiroshige drew the fat cedar tree just in the middle of the image, placed a bonfire beside it and arranged people attracted by the heat.

The buildings in the distance would be Hamamatsu station and the tall structure with black roof is probably Hamamatsu castle.

The rising smoke is carefully depicted by delicate gradation - brown at the bottom, blending into gray and then white shown by the embossing technique.

The traveler standing on the right side of the tree seems to be hesitating to get the light from the bonfire …

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