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Ukiyo-e

No. 15. Yoshiwara.

No. 15. Yoshiwara.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
From the series, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Gyosho Tokaido).
Signature: Hiroshige ga
Date: 1841-42
Publisher: Ezaki
Ref: Tamba 346
X111190
$650.

Ueno Shinobazu no ike. Shinobazu Pond, Ueno. Year End Market at Kannon Temple, Asakusa. Fukagawa Hashiman keidai. (The Hachiman Shrine of Fukagawa) Hamamatsu. No. 15. Yoshiwara. (Imado Bridge, Yoshiwara.) ( A beach scene.) Plum Estate at Kameido. Kameido Umayashiki. Foreigners at Gankiro in the pleasure quarters of Miyozkicho, Yokohama. Genji Rokujo no hana. Genji - Flowers of Rokujo. Bon Odori from Genji junikagetsu no uchi. Twelve Months of Genji. Kumagae Jironaozane and his son Hirayama Sueshige competing for the first inroad into the Heike family's castle.... (A waitress.) (A beauty with plaid kimono and green hood.) Okubo Tadanori rescuing Tokugawa Ieyasu on the battlefield. From the series, Kokoku nijishiko. Twenty-four accomplishments in Imperial Japan. Kurihara Saisuke evading bullets. From the series, Biographies of modern men. Kinsei kyogiden. The night is still and a hundred flowers are fragrant... From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. "Pleasure is this/ to lie cool under the moonflower bower/ the man in his undershirt, the woman in her slip." From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. Night Attack of a Warrior (Gishi Youchi no zu) from the series "New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures" Orio Yoshiharu. (A wild man.) Flowers.