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Print called Ukiyo-e * signed Ichiryusai Hiroshige ** representing an animated view of many characters during a procession in a street certainly in Tokyo (Edo), first half of the nineteenth century.
This print is in its own juice and has undergone the use of time. Signed on the upper left, annotated in the sky, and cartouche on the lower right.
A note: the bottom of the print has been damaged and restored (pappier cotrecollé on the back), jausississ the paper, wear of time, look at the photos.
Japanese term meaning "image of the floating world") is a Japanese artistic movement of the Edo period (1603-1868) including not only an original folk painting and narrative, but also and especially Japanese prints. the main themes are Bijinga ("Paintings of pretty women"), Kabuki and yakusha-e (images of kabuki theater and its actors), Shunga (erotic paintings), Landscapes (fkei-ga) and "famous sights" ( meisho-e) and also the fauna and flora.
(born in 1797 in Edo, died October 12, 1858 in Edo) is a Japanese draftsman, engraver and painter. It is distinguished by series of prints on Mount Fuji and Edo (current T? Ky?), Evocatively depicting the landscapes and the atmosphere of the city, taking up the moments of the daily life of the city before its transformation in the Meiji era (1868-1912). A prolific author, active between 1818 and 1858, he created a work of more than 5,400 prints. He is with Hokusai, with whom he is often compared - to oppose them - one of the last great names of the ukiyo-e and, in particular, of the landscape print, which he led to a summit unparalleled before the decline of xylography in Japan.
Japanese ukiyo-e artists usually use several names in their lifetime. In the case of Hiroshige, he first uses his real name, And? Tokutaro. Utagawa Hiroshige is then the name he receives in 1812, just one year after joining Utagawa School as Utagawa Toyohiro's student. But at this time he received a kind of workshop name, Ichiy? Sai, which he changed in 1830-1831 by changing one of the syllables, to take the name of Ichiry? Sai, like his master ToyohiroIchiry? Sai is the name he uses for his Famous Views of the Eastern Capital. Finally, as is the tradition for the most talented pupil in a workshop, he takes the name of his master when he dies, and so uses the name of Toyohiro II.
