Catalog (14)

Hiroshige Ando
A Pair of Poppies and Quails
Size: Approximately 8 x 3.75 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 364 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: We find these Matsumoto-published Hiroshige scenes to be particularly good, but we don't list all of them. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing others.

Hiroshige Ando
Rural View by Moonlight
Size: Approximately 6.625 x 5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Seal is read "Hiroshige".
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 428 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: We find these Matsumoto-published Hiroshige scenes to be particularly good, but we don't list all of them. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing others.

Hiroshige Ando
Sudden Shower Over Shin Ohashi Bridge
Size: Approximately 5.625 x 3.5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 417 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: We find these Matsumoto-published Hiroshige scenes to be particularly good, but we don't list all of them. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing others.

(After) Hiroshige Ando
Fireworks at Ryogoku on the Sumida River
Date: Monday, May 9, 1938.
Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches (19 x 13.5 cm).
Note: Menu for the passenger ship Katori Maru on the N.Y.K. Line.
Publisher: Likey Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then, the block was used in a mechanical printing proc...

Hiroshige Ando
Fuchu, Nichomachi (Titled in image)
Size: Approximately 8.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 40 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Bend lower right corner. Chip upper left corner.

Ando Hiroshige (after)
"A Fairy Moon and a Lonely Shore"
This scene depicts salt gathering at Suma Beach.
Date: ca 1910.
Size: 7.125 x 4.75 inches (18 x 12 cm).
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. Tag on back (#39).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Mark on island and a couple foxing spots on back.

Hiroshige Ando
Fuchu, Nichomachi (Titled in image)
Size: Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Date: ca 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto Print Works. No. 419 publisher's tag on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Waviness corresponding to location of tag.

Hiroshige Ando
Suidobashi, Surugadai (Suido Bridge and Surugadai)
Series: No. 48 from Meisho Edo Hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)
Date: Intercalary 5th month, 1857.
Size: Oban 14 x 9.75 inches.
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Margin blanks and tears repaired by conservator. Soiling.

Hiroshige Utagawa (Ando)
Title: Gosekku (五節句), Ninth Month, Asakusa Okuyama (九月 浅草おく山)
Series: Famous Places in Edo (Edo Meisho) (江戸名所) – The Edo Meisho series specific to fan (団扇) prints.
Depicting the September 9th Choyo-no-Sekku (重陽の節句) Chrysanthemum Festival (菊まつり) at Asakusa (formerly called Okuyama).
Date: 1849-52. Censor seals date 1849-1853.
Publisher: Marukyu (diamond-shaped cartouche).
Medium: Japanese wo...

Hiroshige and Kunisada (Toyokuni)
Title: The center panel of the triptych Furyu Genji Tsukuda (Fashionable Genji Tsukuda)
Date: 1853.
Size: 14.125 x 9.75 inches.
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Isekane)
Publisher, carver, date, and censor seals present.
Also bears the red seal of notable 19th centry Paris dealer Hayashi Tadamasa.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Faint foxing. Verso has paper residue at top corners.
Note the cute fox (kitsune) ...

(After) Hiroshige Ando
Suidobashi, Surugadai (Suido Bridge and Surugadai)
Date: Thursday, December 3, 1931.
Size: 7.625 x 5 inches (19.5 x 12.6 cm).
Note: Concert and tea party menu for the passenger ship Chichibu Maru on the N.Y.K. Line.
Publisher: Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then, the block wa...

Hiroshige Ando
Seven Song-birds (aka. Gourds and Japanese White-eye)
Size: Approximately 7.5 x 5.25 inches. 19.4 x 13.2 cm.
Date: ca. 1910.
Publisher: Matsumoto (No. 26).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Small spot where back Matsumoto label is attached.
The Matsumoto catalog notes, "Seven mejiro (known as Japanese silver-eye) perching on a melon-vine."

Hiroshige Ando (Utagawa)
The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province (Kōyō Saruhashi no zu)
Date: ca. 1841–42 This edition early 20th century.
Size: Large vertical diptych at 29.0 x 9.625 inches.
Publisher: Bears Tsutaya Kichizo seal on front. This edition published by Adachi (seal on back).
Condition: Slight creasing at top corners. A couple of faint foxing spots near bottom.

Hiroshige Ando
Mt. Kaji (Karo) in Inaba Province (Inaba Kajikoyama (Karokoyama)).
Series: No. 40 from Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces.
Date: December 1853. First edition.
Size: Oban. Without paper backing 14.25 x 9.75 inches. With backing: 14.5 x 9.875 inches.
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Exceptional color. Pencil note at top margin and paper backing. Slight waviness near botto...