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Hakone
by Tamenobu, Fujikawa (1890s)
| Artist: | Tamenobu, Fujikawa (1890s) |
| Title: | Hakone |
| Series: | Famous Places of the Tokaido- Shank's Mare |
| Date: | 1918 (this item: First/Early edition) |
| Publisher: | Unknown |
| Medium: | Woodblock |
| Format: | Oban, sheet size 36 x 24cm |
| Condition: | As issued, full size and retaining original Japanese album backing paper. Paper very slightly toned. Generally very good state of preservation. |
| Price: | $185 (EMS Express shipping: $20) |
| Item Code: | 8116-Tamenobu_Fujikawa |
| Notes: | The two heroes of "Shanks' Mare Tokaido" (Tokaido Hizakurige) by Jippensha Ikku, here depicted by Tamenobu. The author Ikku was a popular comic writer of the Tokugawa period (19th century) and this was the first 'translation' of the two scoundrels' adventures on the Tokaido highway into Ukiyo-e. Most of the landscape designs bear more than a passing acknowledgment to the designs of Hiroshige for his Great Tokaido series. The two travellers Mr.Yaji and Mr. Kita single-handedly demolished all the inns along the Tokaido. |