Title:
Karuizawa, number 19 from Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road
Creator/Contributor:
Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797-1858; published by Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo)
Date:
1835-1836
Identifier:
1965.30.225
Format:
Oban
Full-color woodcut (nishiki-e)
10 x 14 1/4 inches
Notes:
From a set of seventy subjects begun by Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) and the publisher Hoeido in 1835 and completed by Hiroshige
and the publisher Kinjudo between 1836 and 1839. The collector Frank Lloyd Wright added color to this late impression of Karuizawa
by Hiroshige.
References: Suzuki p. 165
Inscription: Recto, signed Hiroshige ga at l.r.; Tokaido seal at l.r.
Subject:
Japan; landscapes (representations); fires; trees; agricultural land; paths; men; horseback riding