Original woodblock print - Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Le Pont Ichikokubashi à Edo - De la série "36 Vues du Mont Fuji" - 1891

Original woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) -Ichikokubashi Bridge at Edo (Tôto Ichikokubashi) from the series 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' - Japan - 1891

. Ichikokubashi Bridge at Edo (Tôto Ichikokubashi)

. This art print was published in 1891 by Kodama Matashichi (active 1881–1894) and was printed with the original, partially edited (with added date/lettering in the margins) woodblocks (1858) . The print is part of a memorial edition of the ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ series. Many of the woodblock prints from the earlier editions are now extremely rare. This memorial series provides a good opportunity to obtain an original woodblock print of these classic Hiroshige designs.

. What makes this later ‘Memorial Edition’ recognisably different from previous editions is the presence of the extensive text in both the right and left margins.