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Karuizawa - Kisokaido (M)

Size: 23.0cm by 32.5cm (9.06 in by 12.80 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Ando Hiroshige

Era: Mid Showa | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 69.00£ 50.25€ 59.50 [Item has been sold]

Description: A print from Hiroshige's "Sixty-nine Stations of Kisokaido" series, showing Station 47 on the Kisokaido Road. Karuizawa is one of the best-known in the series as the first station on the ancient highway.

It skillfully depicts a mundane scene of a traveler and horse drivers lighting their tobacco pipes in a rural farming village.

This version is from a set that consists of 24 works created by Hiroshige and reproduced by Takamizawa during the post-war period. They carefully selected the best prints from various series and reproduced them in a slightly smaller size than the originals.

This particular edition was produced by Takamizawa Company in the 1970s. This reproduction is at a slightly smaller dimension than the original.

There are a few marks at the bottom left margin of this print.

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