Online Pamono Utagawa Hiroshige II, Meishoe, Original Woodcut, 1860s

Meishoe is an original artwork realized in the 1865 by Utagawa Sadahide (1807 – c. 1878–1879). Woodcut Print Oban Format. from the series “Suehiro gojusan tsugi” (A fan with the 53 stations). A daimyo procession arrives in Hakone, Fuji on the right. Signed: Gountei Sadahide ga. Publisher: Enshuya Hikobei. Censorship: Aratame. Very good lifetime impression with bokashi, visible baren printing lines and wood grain, backed, one small fold, stain at left margin, margins partly trimmed. Utagawa Sadahide (1807 – c. 1878–1879), also known as Gountei Sadahide, was a Japanese artist best known for his prints in the ukiyo-e style as a member of the Utagawa school. His prints covered a wide variety of genres; amongst his best known are his Yokohama-e pictures of foreigners in Yokohama in the 1860s, a period when he was a best-selling artist. He was a member of the Tokugawa shogunate’s delegation to the International Exposition of 1867 in Paris.