woodblock print(reprinp) - Paper - Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - 'Ōmi Biwako Ishiyamadera ' 近江 琵琶湖 石山寺(Omi Lake Biwa Ishiyama Temple) - From the series "Rokujûyoshû meisho zue" 六十余州名所図絵 (Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces) - Japan -1920-30 Reasonable condition, fine colors, trimmed margins, some foxing, spots, tape residue on verso Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran from Nihonbashi in Edo(Tokyo)to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto. A lot of famous artists, like Utagawa Hiroshige, also painted this. The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige’s best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. `Asakusa-ichi'' is held near Asakusa Kannon on the 17th and 18th of December every year. means it was very busy. This ukiyo-e is a work depicting the Asakusa market. See Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/209057 Hiroshige’s work came to have a marked influence on Western painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western artists closely studied Hiroshige’s compositions, and some, such as van Gogh, painted copies of Hiroshige’s prints. This work is Hiroshige’s art work around the age of 59. It is a work that seems to be Hiroshige, depicting the entire landscape.