Catalog ID: 6445
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Views of Edo, #30
Edition: Original
Date: 1857
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Reference No.: Marks: Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Size: 14 -1/4 x 10 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Views of Edo, #30
Edition: Original
Date: 1857
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Reference No.: Marks: Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Size: 14 -1/4 x 10 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
This print is one of Utagawa Hiroshige’s most recognizable designs due to its innovative composition. The artist brings us face to face with the celebrated "Sleeping Dragon Plum" of Kameido. This tree, the most famous in Edo, was known for the purity of its double blossoms, which, according to one Edo guidebook, were "so white when full in bloom as to drive off the darkness." We are so close that we can almost smell the tree's powerful fragrance, reputed to have lured the shogun Yoshimune as he passed nearby in the early eighteenth century.