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."1 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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