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[Toto Meguro Yuhi no kei] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:View of the sunset at Meguro eastern capitol (Edo). – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Toto Meguro Yuhi no kei] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:View of the sunset at Meguro eastern capitol (Edo)., 304 — historic print
[Toto Meguro Yuhi no kei] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:View of the sunset at Meguro eastern capitol (Edo)., 304. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Toto Meguro Yuhi no kei] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:View of the sunset at Meguro eastern capitol (Edo)., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Toto Meguro Yuhi no kei] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:View of the sunset at Meguro eastern capitol (Edo).

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Maple trees frame the view in this sunset scene from Hiroshige's Fuji series, which is what sets it apart from the other sheets in the set: the foliage sits in the foreground while Mount Fuji rises in the distance. Meguro lay on the outskirts of Edo, where hillside temples and open ground drew townspeople out to enjoy the evening light. Utagawa Hiroshige, a leading master of landscape woodblock prints, often used such places to show ordinary Edo life against Fuji. This is a color woodcut, but the catalog date is unclear, so its exact year is uncertain.

Created / published304
CreatorUtagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist.
Medium1 print : woodcut color.
NotesTitle and other information based on data sheet and Basil Stewarts Guide to Japanese prints 1979 p. 114. From the series: Fuji Sanjū-Rokke (Thirty-six views of Fuji) no. 10. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection. Preliminary catalog record
SubjectsMaples--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1860. Fuji Mount (Japan)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,675 × 4,506 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227680

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