Catalog ID: 3309
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Diptych Woodblock Print
Series Title: Evening
Edition: First
Date: c.1840s
Publisher: Koeido
Reference No.: Tokyo National Museum, Tokubetsuten ukiyo-e (Special exhibition of ukiyo-e) (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1984), pl. 654
Size: 14 -1/4 x 9 -3/4 " (diptych format)
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Ando Hiroshige
Medium: Original Japanese Diptych Woodblock Print
Series Title: Evening
Edition: First
Date: c.1840s
Publisher: Koeido
Reference No.: Tokyo National Museum, Tokubetsuten ukiyo-e (Special exhibition of ukiyo-e) (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1984), pl. 654
Size: 14 -1/4 x 9 -3/4 " (diptych format)
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Signed: 'Hiroshige hitsu'. Published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido).
The "Monkey Bridge" is one of the rarest of Hiroshige's masterpieces and is considered to be the finest in the vertical-diptych format. The design is thought to have been completed soon after his journey in 1841 along the Koshukaido, the road from Edo (Tokyo) to Koshu (Kai province) near Lake Suwa on the Kisokaido. Another impression of this image is in the Tokyo National Museum and is a registered Important Art Object.