Edo prints


  Design: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)  
  Title: Twilight snow at Ryogoku  
  Series title: Eight Views of the Eastern Capital  
  Size: 24.0 x 35.0 cm (ōban)  
  Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Hiroshige Snow at Ryogoku

Enlargement


Originally published by Fujiokaya Hikotarō ca. 1835-1838. This reproduction published by Adachi in Tokyo in the 1970s.

This is a view of Ryōgoku bridge as seen from the east-bank of the Sumida river in Edo. The small bridge in the foreground is Okura bridge. For more information on these two bridges, please have a look at my other website here and here.

Black artist’s signature at the top right of print area:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
廣 hiro broad  
重 shige heavy Picture by
画 ga picture Hiroshige

Black series title at the left of the artist’s signature:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
東 tō east  
都 to capital  
八 hachi eight Eight views of
景 kei view the Eastern capital

Black print title at the left of the series title:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
両 ryō both sides  
国 koku province  
暮 bo twilight Twilight snow
雪 setsu snow at Ryogoku


Provenance: Mokuhankan

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