Signed Hiroshige hitsu with seal Ichiryusai, publisher stamp for Sanoya Kihei at bottom right hand corner, kakemono-e, ink and colors on paper, good impression with some fading where print showed through the glass frame, darkening of paper overall, small areas of loss along the trimmed edges of prints, laid onto a binding paper to keep in place, a repaired rip at the top of the diptych.

SS: 28.5 x 10.25 in

Utagawa Hiroshige is one of Japan's most famous and recognized woodblock print artists of the Edo period (1615-1868). This rare vertical diptych shows the Fuji River flowing between steep snowy cliffs. It is known that Hiroshige visited this region in 1842 and he probably crossed the Fuji River. Impressions of this print are held in leading museums including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tokyo National Museum among others.

$1,500 - 2,000