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Notes (1st edition)69. The Bell Deeps on the Ayase River
Publisher (this edition): Uoya Eikichi Hasegawa
Date of this item: 1920s
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: 		HIROSHIGE
Ayase River and Kanegafuchi
Number 63 from the series 100 Famous Views of Edo
Date: originally published 7/1857, this published by Hasegawa c. 1920, listed as number #316 in the 1930 Hasegawa catalog
Size: oban, approx. 10.5" x 15.5"
Condition: Very Good, no flaws, on time toned older paper
Impression: Fine, unusual variant edition with mountains added to the background and the tree removed from the left foreground. Other elements such as the full moon have also been added, but the basic foreground and middle ground landscape, as well as the man poling his raft remain the same. Compare the the Brooklyn set #63.
Color: Fine, deep saturated color, and bleed through to verso (see scans)
Documentation: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Brazillier, 1986, print 63
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