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DescriptionUtagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) Evening Snow on Mount Asuka (Asukayama no bosetsu)Edo period, 19th century 
woodblock print, from the series Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), censor’s seal kiwame (approved), published by Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudo), circa 1837-38
Horizontal oban: 24.1 x 36.5 cm., 9½ x 14⅞ in.Condition reportGood impression, generally good colour, slight toning overall, vertical centrefold with splits top and bottom and with restorations, elsewhere very small wormholes, some patched at verso, slight trimming and slight wear to paper edges, light soiling.
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Initially commissioned by the comic-verse (kyoka) poet, Taihaido Donsho, this rare series Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi) originally included his poems and was accompanied with the seal Taihaido kaihan [inaugurated by Taihaido]. Later printings, also rare, were reissued by the publisher Sanoya Kihei with some of the poems omitted or substituted with other newly composed poetry.
For a similar impression of the same print published by Sanoya Kihei in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET), accession number JP2479, go to:https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60028081