Xilografia originale - Carta Washi - Monte Fuji - Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - 'Entrance To Enoshima in Sagami Province' 相摸江之島入口 - From "Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji" 富士三十六景 - Giappone - 1858 (Ansei 5), 4 ° mese

Original woodblock print - Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - 'Sagami Enoshima iriguchi' 相摸江之島入口 (Entrance To Enoshima in Sagami Province) - From the series "Fuji sanjûrokkei" 富士三十六景 (Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji) - Japan - 1858 (Ansei 5), 4th month

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Title: 'Sagami Enoshima iriguchi' 相摸江之島入口 (Entrance To Enoshima in Sagami Province)

Series Title: "Fuji sanjûrokkei" 富士三十六景 (Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji)

Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizo

Date: 1858 (Ansei 5), 4th month

Size: 23.5 x 36 cm

Condition: Holes restored, trimmed, light wear and soiling, colour slightly faded.

See Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/217848

and Chazen Museum of Art: https://chazen.wisc.edu/collection/5576/the-entrance-gate-at-enoshima-in-sagami/

'The Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji' was one of Hiroshige's final series. While he produced two different series with the same name, the print visible here is from the latter. The first series are half-sized prints oriented landscape, the second series is full-sized with portrait orientation.

This print presents beauties on the beach on the island of Enoshima. Hiroshige's use of profound use of gradation helps to give depth to both the sea and sky. Mount Fuji can be seen through the large torii gate at the entrance of the shrine in a beautiful play on geometrical forms and perspective.