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[Sagami-gawa] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:Sagami River. – Vintage Wall Art

[Sagami-gawa] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:Sagami River., 304 — historic print
[Sagami-gawa] / Hiroshige ga.TITLE TRANSLATION:Sagami River., 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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Log rafts drifting down the Sagami River, with herons standing nearby, set this sheet apart from the other views in Hiroshige's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, where it is plate 18. The rafts were a working part of river life: timber cut in the hills was floated downstream toward the coast, so the scene shows commerce as well as landscape. Mount Fuji rises in the distance, as it does in most of the series. The print was cut and printed in woodblock color, and the engraver, Matsushima Seikichi, is credited on the sheet.

Created / published304
CreatorMatsushima Seikichi engraver.
Medium1 print : woodcut color.
NotesTitle and other information based on data sheet and Basil Stewarts Guide to Japanese prints 1979 p. 115. From the series: Fuji Sanjū-Rokke (Thirty-six views of Fuji) no. 18. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection. Preliminary catalog record
SubjectsLog rafts--Japan--1850-1860. Herons--Japan--1850-1860. Japanese--Transportation--Japan--1850-1860. Country life--Japan--1850-1860. Fuji Mount (Japan)--1850-1860. Sagami River (Japan)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,636 × 4,550 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227331

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