Small Format Reproduction: [After Hiroshige's] The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province

Small Format Prints - Shin Hanga and Ukiyo-e Reproductions
 

Japanese Color Woodblock Print

[After Hiroshige's] The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province, originally 1840-1842

Small Format Reproduction: [After Hiroshige's] Fuchū, Nichō-machi, No. 6 from a Hiroshige harimaz-e series Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido,


IHL Cat. #1452

About This Print

A small format print after a 1840-1842 Hiroshige depiction of Monkey Bridge, originally created as part of a four panel harimaze print.  The bridge got its name "because the original rickety, plank structure was so precarious that only an agile monkey could supposedly cross it." Hiroshige created at least three prints picturing Monkey Bridge and this collections small print "borrowed" design elements from several of them, but is overall closest in design to the below print cut from the four panel harimaze.


original print cut from an untitled harimaze sheet, 1840-1842
10 3/16 x 4 3/16 in. (25.8 x 10.7 cm)

1 Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960, James King, New York: Peter Lang, 2010, p. 110.

Print Details

 IHL Catalog #1452
 Title [After Hiroshige's] The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province 
 甲斐 さるは
 Series
 Artist  after Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858)
 Signature 
 廣重画 Hiroshige ga - lower right corner of image
 Seal of the Artist not sealed
 Publication Date: Original Print 1840-1842
 Publication Date: Reproduction c. 1930s
 Publisher: Original Print Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudō)
 Publisher: Reproduction
 no publisher's seal but likely Takemura Hideo 竹村秀雄 (H. Takemura & Co., 45 Bentendori, Yokohama, Japan) 
 Impression excellent
 Colors excellent
 Condition fair - paper loss top right corner
 Miscellaneous
 Genre ukiyo-e, fukusei-ga
 Format yatsugiri
 H x W Paper 5 3/8 x 3 7/16 in. (13.5 x 8.7 cm )
 H x W Image 5 3/16 x 3 5/16 in. (13 x 8.4 cm)  
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