About This Print
Print number 47 四十七 in the series Nihon chishi ryakuzu (Simple Illustrations of Places in Japan) consisting of at least 78 prints. The series formed a type of geographical primer of Japan and the prints were sold individually and bound into albums as can be seen in the below book in the collection of the British Museum.
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Utagawa Hiroshige III
Nihon chishi ryakuzu
Set of 74 half-block sheets, with two quarter-block title pages. Woodblock-printed.
British Museum Registration number: 1973,0723,0.34
This print pictures the harvesting of salt on the beach below Mount Takazuno. Hiroshige III has been inspired by (or just copied) the scene from his master Utagawa Hiroshige I's 1853 print Iwama Province, Salt Beaches at Takatsu from the series Famous Views in the Sixty Odd Provinces pictured below.Nihon chishi ryakuzu
Set of 74 half-block sheets, with two quarter-block title pages. Woodblock-printed.
British Museum Registration number: 1973,0723,0.34
Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858)
Iwami Province: Mount Takazuno, Salt Beach (Iwami, Takazunoyama, Shiohama),
from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, 1853
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 21.9531
Iwami Province: Mount Takazuno, Salt Beach (Iwami, Takazunoyama, Shiohama),
from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, 1853
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 21.9531
Iwami (石見国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the western part of Shimane Prefecture. Iwami bordered Aki, Bingo, Izumo, Nagato, and Suō provinces.1
1 Wikipedia website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwami_Province
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #536 |
| Title or Description | Iwami Province: Mount Takazuno, Salt Beach Iwami no kuni: Takazunoyama Shiohama 石見国: 高津山汐浜 |
| Series | Nihon chishi ryakuzu 日本地誌略図 (Simple Illustrations of Places in Japan or Topgraphical Sketches of Japan) |
| Artist | Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842–1894) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date | 1876 (Meiji 9) |
| Publisher |  bottom part of publisher seal provides the artist's family name 安藤徳兵エ(Andō Tokubei) and address 大鋸町四番地 |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - mounting residue verso upper right corner; thinning and small repair verso upper left corner where removed from folio |
| Genre | ukiyo-e, fūkei-ga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | chuban |
| H x W Paper | 7 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (18.1 x 25.1 cm) |
| H x W Image | 6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (16.2 x 22.5 cm) |
| Literature | |
| Collections This Print | British Museum 1973,0723,0.34 |
12/10/2020
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