The Great Harbor at Mikuni in Echizen Province (Deluxe Edition)

Catalog ID: 11150

Artist: Hiroshige II
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces
Edition: Original Deluxe Edition
Date: 1860
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Reference No.: Strange 1925, p. 193, list #44
Size: 14 -3/4 x 9 -3/4 "
Condition: Very fine

Notes:

Provenance: Robert O. Muller Collection. A beautiful example of the first state, deluxe edition with mica dust used throughout, and additional layers of color and bokashi shading.

The series dates from the middle of Hiroshige II's career, when he was in his mid-thirties. At this point, he had just started using the name 'Hiroshige', since his master Hiroshige I had just died (in 1858), and Hiroshige II had taken over the gō 'Hiroshige'; the prints in this series are signed 'Hiroshige'.