"Sunset Glow at Seta" from the series "Eight Views of Ômi"

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Item No: facjp00102
Title: "Sunset Glow at Seta" from the series "Eight Views of Ômi"
Media Type: Woodcuts
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

"Sunset At Seta - Perhaps the chief masterpiece of a set in which all are masterpieces. 'Soft and fitful rain passes far away over the mountains; the evening light streams along the bridge of Seta."

From "A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter" by Basil Stewart, Dover Publications, New York. Page 145


Notes:

Hand written note with print:

"Artist = Hiroshige

One of  8 beautiful view in Omi province

eveningtime of bridge of Seta (poetic name shu gioku)

poem

when ship come to the bridge it was evening set sunshine obliquely"

*hand writing hard to interpret

print appears to be a cropped view of Hiroshige's Sunset at Seta. 

Follow link to see image of what  the original Hiroshige print looks like

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56191


Image Dimensions Width: 17.3 cm
Creator Name: Hiroshige, Utagawa, 1797-1858 - Artist

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