View From Koshigaya in Musashi Province (Musashi Koshigaya), No. 14 from the series Thirty-Six Views of Fuji (Fuji Sanjūrokkei)
Utagawa Hiroshige I, Japanese, 1797 - 1858. Published by Tsutaya Kichizō, Kōeidō.
Geography:
Made in Japan, Asia
Period:
Edo Period (1615-1868)Date:
1858Medium:
Color woodcutDimensions:
Ōban tate-e: 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (35.2 x 24.4 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1959-94-1Credit Line:
Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1959
Made in Japan, Asia
Period:
Edo Period (1615-1868)Date:
1858Medium:
Color woodcutDimensions:
Ōban tate-e: 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (35.2 x 24.4 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1959-94-1Credit Line:
Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1959
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Utagawa Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most talented nineteenth-century landscape artists. This woodcut is part of a series of views of Mount Fuji in which the revered mountain is seen in the distance, often glimpsed through trees, reeds, or raindrops that occupy the immediate foreground.
