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Mount Kuno, 1862

Original color woodcut inches 8,8 x 6,5 (mm 225 x 167)

 

Bibliography: Strange E.F., The color prints of Hiroshige, London and New York 1925, reprints Geneva 1973, New York 1983; Lane R., Images from the floating world, The japanese prints, Freiburg 1978, French language edition Freiburg 1979; Stewart B., Subject portrayed in japanese color-prints, London 1925, reprints Geneva 1973 New York 1979.

Plate from the series Sixty-eight Views of the Various Provinces. The shrine in the picture is probably the Kunozan Toshogu shrine although there is no direct indication. Good proof with brilliant colors. Very well preserved.

 

Rif. 7341