Edo Period. Utagawa Hiroshige, Tsuki to Tsubame (Moon and Swallow). Ukiyo-e print. Authentic work.

Sohitsu Gafu (Album of Freehand Brush Drawings). A single loose leaf.

Printed in 1848, Kaei 1.

By Utagawa Hiroshige. An authentic impression, not a reproduction.

Minor traces of worming; otherwise in good overall condition.

Presented in an A5-size wooden frame with acrylic glazing, slightly larger than a postcard. Simply framed and ready for display. The absence of apparent wear to the woodblocks suggests an impression close to the first printing. Suitable for collectors of Edo-period antiques, Japanese works of art, curios and hanging scrolls.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797, Kansei 9 - October 12,1858, the sixth day of the ninth month of Ansei 5) was an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. His birth name was Ando Juemon, and his childhood name was Tokutaro. He was subsequently also known as Juemon, Tetsuzo or Tokube. Although sometimes referred to as Ando Hiroshige, Ando was his family name and Hiroshige his art name; combining the two is inappropriate, and Hiroshige himself never used this form of his name. Born in Edo into the Ando family, whose members had served for generations in the jobikeshi, the city's permanent firefighting corps, he inherited the family position before becoming an ukiyo-e artist. His landscape woodblock prints enjoyed widespread popularity and influenced Western painters, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.