Original woodblock print – Paper – Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) – ‘shinsen edomeisyo mkameido tenmanguu keidai hanamori nozu’ -新撰江戸名所 亀戸天満宮 境内藤花盛之図(Newly selected Edo famous places Kameido Tenmangu Shrine precincts wisteria flowers)- Japan-1852 See Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237586 The same subject had previously been dealt with by Hokusai in two of his own series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, produced from c. 1830 to 1832,and One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, published in three volumes from 1834 to 1849. Inspired by Hokusai’s work, hiroshige made this work. The signature says “Ichirissai Hiroshige e,”一立斎広重画”. Publisher by Sano yoshi 佐野喜 This Ukiyo-e has holes and folds This series of works is the “Fifty-three Meisho Zue” produced by Hiroshige Utagawa in 1855 (Ansei 2 pariod) as the last Tokaido series. This type of ukiyo-e was often drawn in landscape orientation, but it is drawn in portrait orientation so that you can see the whole thing. This work is the 37st work of the “(Famous Places of the 53 stations of the TOKAIDO, thirty seven”. Hiroshige’s work came to have a marked influence on Western painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western artists closely studied Hiroshige’s compositions, and some, such as van Gogh, painted copies of Hiroshige’s prints