The Station Sakanoshita

The Station Sakanoshita is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858) in 1891.

From the series "Gojusan tsugi meisho zue" (55 stations of the Tokaido Road); the station Sakanoshita.

Oban. Dimensions: 38 x 24.5 cm.

In the image signature of Hiroshige, seal of the published Tsutaya Kichizo, censor's seal and dated 1855. However, it is a reprint of the Meiji period of the publisher Kodama Matashichi, date and inscription of the publisher at left margin, further text at right margin.

Very good impression with Baren printing lines and mica (brown rocks above), right margin trimmed, remains of a backing. 

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).