The Yugyô-ji Temple (Fujisawa, Yugyô-ji) is a beautiful polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e), from the series “The Fifty-three Stations Along the Tôkaidô (Tôkaidô gojUsan tsugi no uchi’). This plate, as well all the plates of the whole print suite, was designed by the ukiyo-e old master, Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, 1797-1858), after his travel along the Tokaido in 1832. Printed after 1833-34, this original print, in horizontal oban (cm 21.5 x 33.5) reports Japanese ideograms on the margins: red seal: “Hiroshige ga” signature, publisher’s stamp, red seal: Hôeidô (Take no uchi Magohachi, censor’s stamp: Kiwame. In good condition, this plate with visible lacks on the margins, aging signs (paper wrinkles, yellowings, discolorations, abrasions, little holes) and some restorations signs on the back, this original print has preserved still today its beauty and charme. Sometimes the colors are matt, but undoubtedly this specimen still reveals the talented graphic touch of the master Hiroshige. Provenance: German private collection, assembled between the 1950s and 2000. The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832. The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō was such a popular subject that led Hiroshige to create some 30 series of woodcut prints on it, all very different one from the other by their size (ōban or chuban), their designs or even their number (some series include just a few prints). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō was such a popular subject that led Hiroshige to create some 30 series of woodcut prints on it, all very different one from the other by their size (ōban or chuban), their designs or even their number (some series include just a few prints). The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. Created after Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, this print series established this new major theme of ukiyo-e, the landscape print, or fūkei-ga, with a special focus on "famous views" (meisho). Hiroshige's series met a full success, not only in Japan, but later in Western countries.
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