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Edo prints

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	Design:	Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
	Title:	Ōmori
	Series title:	Famous places in Edo
	Size:	19.0 x 26.8 cm (ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Originally published ca. 1830-1835 by publisher Kagaya Kichibei (加賀屋 吉兵衛). This smaller sized edition was published around the 1920s by publisher and designer Hashiguchi Goyō (1880-1921) from newly carved blocks.

Ōmori is a district located a few kilometres south of Shinagawa in Edo, current day Tokyo. In Edo times Ōmori was laced with a network of small rivers which were used by many locals for drying harvested nori (seaweed).

Artist’s signature in bottom right print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
一	ichi	one
勇	yū	be spirited
彩	sai	color
国	kuni	country
芳	yoshi	favorable	Brush of Ichiyūsai
筆	hitsu	writing brush	Kuniyoshi

Followed by round kiwame (‘approved’) censorship seal and publisher Kagaya Kichibei seal, see Marks (2011, p. 65, seal number 22-024).

Series and print title in round red cartouche:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
東	tō	east
都	to	capital
名	mei	reputation
所	sho	place	Famous places in Edo
大	ō	big
森	mori	forest	Ōmori

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References

• The British Museum here.

• Marks, Andreas (2011). Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

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Provenance: Fuji Arts