Kanbara-Kambara

Catalog note / 解説

Upright Tokaido Series: # 16 Kambara Artist: Hiroshige I Format: Oban tate-e: 14.25" x 9.5" overall Subject: View from high ground leading steeply down to the river-bed, to a round-topped green hill on futher shore, with white mist lying at its base. Above a dip on the right appears the white cone of Fuji against a red sky. In foreground, at each side of the road, two booths and people sitting in them; others climbing up the steep slope from the sandy river-bed below. The foreground should be colored yellow, overprinted with black at the foot of the picture. Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizo Date: 1855 Condition: Fine colors. Album binding holes along left edge repaired. Laid down on Japanese pape…